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Department: Cabinet Office

European Council

Nick Thomas-Symonds Excerpts
Monday 18th December 2017

(6 years, 11 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Nick Thomas-Symonds Portrait Nick Thomas-Symonds (Torfaen) (Lab)
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On workers’ rights, the Prime Minister promised in her Lancaster House speech that she would ensure

“that the voices of workers are heard by the boards of publicly-listed companies for the first time.”

Why, in the past year, has she not introduced the changes to company law that would make that happen?

Baroness May of Maidenhead Portrait The Prime Minister
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As the hon. Gentleman will know, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has published proposals to do exactly that.