HL Deb 01 May 1995 vol 563 c99WA
Lord Bruce of Donington

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Whether they have requested that an investigation be undertaken into the circumstances in which a speech of welcome to the Taiwan delegation to the European Parliament on 13th February 1995 delivered by the former Danish Prime Minister, Poul Schlulter was deleted from the official record of the European Parliament for that day.

Baroness Chalker of Wallasey

No investigation is necessary. It is a matter for the European Parliament (EP) who they invite to observe their plenary meetings and on what terms. We understand it is the EP's custom only to give official welcomes from the chair to delegations invited on behalf of the EP as a whole. The delegation in question was invited unofficially by a number of individual MEPs.