HC Deb 11 December 1997 vol 302 cc648-9W
Mr. Howard

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when the Presidency of the EU commissioned the report on the circumstances surrounding the agreement leading to the final text of Article 4 of the Protocol to the Amsterdam Treaty integrating the Schengen Acquis into the framework of the European Union; when he received it; when he received a letter from the Permanent Representative of the Netherlands on this matter; and if he will publish it. [19951]

Mr. Doug Henderson

[holding answer 9 December 1997]: The Presidency of the EU did not commission any such report. The Permanent Representative of the Netherlands wrote to the UK Permanent Representative on the matter on 16 July. It would not be appropriate to publish this piece of diplomatic correspondence sent by another government to HMG.

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