Jonathan Djanogly

Conservatives did, indeed, campaign for a delay to the agency workers directive's implementation until November 2011, and business was very relieved when the Government conceded to that delay. But, given the regulations' complexity, why are the Government now pandering to trade union demands to push the measures through before the general election?

— from debate entitled “EU Agency Workers Directive”

The three speeches/headings immediately before

  1. 1 earlier: Patrick McFadden

    If you will permit me, Mr. Speaker, I will answer the question. Yes, we have heard calls for social and employment legislation to be repatriated, and for us not to go ahead with the legislation. I do not know where the right hon. and learned Member for Rushcliffe (Mr. Clarke) stands on the issue, but I do not believe that that would be in the interests of the country, when agreements have already been reached in Europe, or in the interests of agency workers, for whom we want to ensure justice, through the implementation, on a proper time scale, of the legislation.

  2. 2 earlier: Tony Lloyd

    Will my right hon. Friend tell the House whether he has received any representations from those who would seek to ensure that the directive does not apply to the United Kingdom? Did they make those representations to him because they want to attack vulnerable workers, or is it, for them, merely another promise on Europe to be broken?

  3. 3 earlier: Patrick McFadden

    The Government are committed to getting the legislation on to the statute book by the end of this Parliament; my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister confirmed that in his recent speech to the TUC. Last month, we published draft regulations that are scheduled to come into force in 2011.

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