HC Deb 30 June 1989 vol 155 cc581-2W
Mrs. Ann Taylor

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, further to his reply to the hon. Member for Dewsbury of 14 June,Official Report, column 417, if he will publish his response to the reasoned opinion of 14 April.

Mr. Howard

Both the European Commission and the Government regard the detailed, formal correspondence on infraction proceedings as confidential. To publish the United Kingdom response to the Commission's reasoned opinion would be a breach of that confidentiality.