HC Deb 07 February 1996 vol 271 c239W
Mr. Hawksley

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will support proposals at the intergovernmental conference to include national Parliaments in negotiations on the social protocol of the Maastricht treaty. [13772]

Mr. David Davis

Under the social protocol agreed at Maastricht, Acts adopted under the annexed social agreement are not applicable to the UK. The Government will not be prepared to relinquish this opt-out at the intergovernmental conference.

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