HC Deb 18 January 1994 vol 235 cc578-9W
Mr. Barnes

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for Langbaurgh (Mr. Bates), of 17 December 1993,Official Report, column 1106, what was the voting record of each member state on (a) the packaging directive and (b) the UN framework convention on climate change.

Mr. Atkins

The common position on the packaging directive was agreed by qualified majority vote without the agreement of Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands. As my hon. Friend the Member of Suffolk, South (Mr. Yeo) stated in the answer he gave on 17 December last, although the United Kingdom strongly supports Community ratification of the climate change convention, we abstained on the formal resolution because of doubts about the choice of legal base.