HC Deb 15 October 1996 vol 282 cc878-9W
Mr. Austin-Walker

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what(a) communications and (b) consultations have taken place on the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996 and instruments made under it, with the Commission of the European Communities and with member states under Commission decision 88/384/EEC and article 118 of the EC treaty; on what dates; by what means; and if he will place in the Library the documents concerned. [40509]

Miss Widdecombe

[holding answer 14 October 1996]: None. These matters are covered by the arrangements for intergovernmental co-operation under title VI of the treaty on European Union.