HC Deb 15 December 1994 vol 251 cc810-1W
Mr. Jenkin

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for South Shields (Dr. Clark) of 25 November,Official Report, column 459, what consideration Her Majesty's Government are giving to the possibility that the Western European Union should become a formal pillar of the Eli on the same basis as the Foreign Affairs Council and the common foreign and security policy.

Mr. Soames

The Government's policy is to develop the Western European Union in the role defined for it in the declaration of WEU Ministers at Maastricht in 1991, and described in my reply to the hon. Member for South Shields.