§ Mr. Donald Stewartasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if Scotland will be treated as a separate country for the purpose of European Community statistical comparisons.
§ Mr. Anthony RoyleThe institutions of the European Communities can normally be expected to make their statistical comparisons for the United Kingdom on the basis of the United Kingom's standard regions system, in which Scotland forms a separate region.
I would, however, also draw the hon. Member's attention to the replies given on 1st February last by my right hon. Friends the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food to Questions from the hon. Member for Farnworth (Mr. Roper) about European Community statistics relating to the United Kingdom.—[Vol. 849. c. 435–6 and c. 455.]