HC Deb 08 July 1986 vol 101 cc123-4W
Mr. Austin Mitchell

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if it is the practice at meetings of representatives of European Community member states meeting on the occasion of Council meetings but not as members of the Council to give their assent to intergovernmental agreements not by formal signature but by their acceptance of the undertaking during such meetings.

Mrs. Chalker

My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has referred the hon. Member to previous instances where this practice has been followed.—[Official Report, 12 June 1986, c. 287.]

Mr. Austin Mitchell

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs in what way the text of the 1984 intergovernmental agreement was recorded; and in what languages.

Mrs. Chalker

I have nothing to add to the reply that my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister gave the hon. Member on 12 June at column287.