HC Deb 20 November 2003 vol 413 cc1306-7W
Mr. Austin Mitchell

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will lay before Parliament a White Paper reproducing the texts of those proposed articles of the draft EU Constitution which are new and additional to those found within or included in the European treaties already in force, giving for each a statement of purpose and the reasons ministers have for supporting, amending or rejecting each and his assessment of whether each is(a) a new constitutional provision and (b) a tidying up. [137942]

Mr. MacShane

I will write to my hon. Friend shortly and place a copy of the letter in the Library of the House.