HC Deb 16 July 1992 vol 211 cc963-4W
Mr. Cash

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what plans he has to undertake a study into the decision-making structure of the European Community with reference to economic convergence and allocation of resources.

Mr. Garel-Jones

There are no plans to undertake any such study. Under the convergence decision of 1990, individual member states are putting forward convergence programmes for discussion within the Council of Ministers as part of the regular process of multilateral surveillance. The Maastricht treaty would carry forward that process of multilateral surveillance, but economic policy would remain, as now, a responsibility of member states.