Clause 1 - Health and safety at work: general duty of self-employed persons

Part of Deregulation Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 2:45 pm on 27 February 2014.

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Photo of Toby Perkins Toby Perkins Shadow Minister (Business, Innovation and Skills) 2:45, 27 February 2014

I want to add to my hon. Friend’s point and one made earlier about the comparison of what happens in Britain with what happens in some countries overseas. One point that has not been made is that in Germany it is much more difficult to set up a company than it is in the UK. One strength of the UK economy is that it is easy to set up a company and to become  self-employed. In Germany, it is much more complicated to set up a company and the way that a company is constituted is very different. For that reason, using Germany as an example is different, because companies that employ people in Germany are different.