§ Mr. DunnTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on the outcome of the Foreign Affairs Council held on 11 and 12 May.
§ Mr. HurdMy right hon. Friend the Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and I represented the United Kingdom at the Foreign Affairs Council on 11 May.
The Council continued its discussion of the Commission's future financing package for 1993–97, focusing in particular on the Commission's expenditure proposals. It also discussed immigration policy and the related issue of internal frontier controls. I reiterated Her Majesty's Government's position that the UK does not agree that article 8a requires the abolition of all frontier controls on people at the Community's internal frontiers.