§ Mr. Spearingasked the Lord President of the Council if he will make it the practice of his administration that Ministers in all future explanatory memoranda on EEC documents list the names of those bodies they have already consulted in respect of the contents of the documents concerned.
§ Mr. Edward ShortFollowing discussion between the Select Committee on European Secondary Legislation etc. and my right hon. Friend the Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs on 17th December last, arrangements are in hand to ensure that future explanatory memoranda on EEC documents will as a general practice give information on any bodies which have 135W been consulted on the contents of the documents concerned.