Clause 18

Part of Employment Bill [Lords] – in a Public Bill Committee am 10:00 am ar 16 Hydref 2008.

Danfonwch hysbysiad imi am ddadleuon fel hyn

Photo of Nick Palmer Nick Palmer PPS (Malcolm Wicks, Minister of State), Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform 10:00, 16 Hydref 2008

I am grateful to the Minister for his eternal patience. Does he agree that the amendment is likely to be incompatible with the ECHR? Am I right that, as members of the European Union, we are collectively bound by that, and that if the Opposition were to press the amendment to a Division they would therefore, in effect, call into question the whole basis of our association with the European Union?