§ Mr. SpearingTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when, by what means and to whom he has made proposals for future parliamentary oversights of matters discussed at an inter-governmental level arising from title VI and articles K.1 to 9 of the treaty on European Union; and if he will publish them as a Command document.
§ Mr. Charles WardleThe Government's proposals for parliamentary oversight of work carried out under title VI of the treaty on European union are set out in memoranda in similar terms submitted to the Home Affairs Committee and to the House of Lords Select Committee on the European Communities in February and March 1993 respectively. My right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Rushcliffe (Mr. Clarke) gave oral evidence on this subject to the Home Affairs Committee on 21 April 1993, and I gave oral evidence to the House of Lords Select Committee on the European Communities on 15 June 1993. The memorandum to the Home Affairs Committee was placed in the Library of the House by the Committee on receipt. The House of Lords Committee has now published its report and the memorandum which I submitted to it.