HC Deb 18 February 1994 vol 237 cc1035-6W
Mr. Marlow

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make it his policy that the necessary procedures in the United Kingdom to bring into effect the agreement reached at the Edinburgh Economic Council regarding the number of Members of the European Parliament will not be completed before the withdrawal by France of the demand that the new European Parliament building be built in Strasbourg.

Mr. Heathcoat-Amory

No. A Council decision of 1 February 1993 calls for member states to complete the necessary procedures to bring into effect the agreement reached at the Edinburgh European Council increasing the number of MEPs in time for the elections in June this year.

The legislative procedures required to fulfil this obligation in the United Kingdom are expected to be completed shortly.

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