§ Mr. Deakinsasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs which paragraph in the July 1971 White Paper on the United Kingdom and the EEC (Command Paper No. 4715) set out the case for membership of an EEC political union.
§ Mr. John DaviesThe paragraphs to which I referred in my reply of 5th November—[Vol. 863, c.59.]—set out the case for closer political as well as economic unity in Europe. The programme laid down in the 1972 Summit Communiqué (Cmnd. 5109), which refers in paragraph 16 to the objective of transforming the whole complex of the relations of member States into a European union, provides for action to realise the wider objectives of the Community reflected in the White Paper.
§ Mr. Martenasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what is his policy with regard to changes in the size of the staff of his Department in the light of progress towards economic, monetary and political union within the Common Market.
§ Lord BalnielStaff will be redeployed as and when the need arises. No significant change in numbers is expected at this stage.