European Union (Amendment) Bill

I will happily intervene to reflect upon the opt-out from the single currency. Witness the exchange rates at this moment: it is scarcely the puny invention that has been described elsewhere. The noble Lord may want to comment on that. Is the noble Lord actually asserting that efforts to regulate the way work is conducted have no implications either for the operation of a market or for the achievement of satisfactory standards of health and safety that affect not only workers but the public with whom they work? I have in mind, for instance, transport. If that is what he is asserting, the noble Lord will have to take it up with the factory Acts, not with the European Union.