Powers Of The House Of Commons And International Agreements

EDM number 1052 in 1989-90, proposed by Peter Shore on 23/05/1990.

That this House believes that the most effective method of obtaining success in transnational endeavours is through co-operation between governments, parliaments and peoples, whether such be within the European Community, in wider Europe, or the rest of the world; and therefore calls on Her Majesty's Government to support and initiate actions that promote higher standards of environmental protection, improved standards of health and safety of employed persons and their conditions of employment by treaties and agreements that achieve their objectives without further prejudice to the rights of the House of Commons in respect of jurisdiction, legislation and taxation which are the foundations of representative democracy in the United Kingdom.

This motion has been signed by a total of 51 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.