HC Deb 23 June 1988 vol 135 c668W
17. Mr. Batiste

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how the Government's policies to prevent terrorism and drug-trafficking will be affected by the creation of a single European market in 1992.

33. Mr. Hayward

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps he proposes to take to ensure that the policies of Her Majesty's Government on combating terrorism and drug trafficking will not be weakened by the creation of a single European market in 1992; and if he will make a statement.

69. Mr. David Nicholson

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on how the creation of a single European market in 1992 will affect his Department's efforts to combat terrorism and drug-trafficking.

Mr. Hurd

In accepting the provisions of the Single European Act, the United Kingdom and other member states expressly reserved their right to take such measures as they considered necessary to combat terrorism, crime and the traffic in drugs. At a meeting of the Trevi group in Munich earlier this month, my colleagues agreed with my suggestion that officials in the Trevi framework should consider the implications of changes in frontier controls and the kind of measures which could be taken to offset disadvantages to our security which might otherwise result from the implementation of the European internal market.