HC Deb 28 November 1990 vol 181 c432W
Mr. Harry Barnes

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his written answer to the hon. Member for Derbyshire, North-East on 22 November,Official Report, column 200, under which legally binding authorities the Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office signed the Single European Act treaty at the meetings he refers to.

Mr. Garel-Jones

My right hon. Friend the then Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Member for Wallasey (Mrs. Chalker), signed the Single European Act at the plenipotentiary meetings in Luxembourg on 17 February 1986 and The Hague on 28 February 1986 under general full powers authorised by Her Majesty the Queen.