HC Deb 04 July 1996 vol 280 cc513-4W
17. Sir Teddy Taylor

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will raise at the next meeting of the European Council of Ministers the legal status of the declaration attached to the Single European Act which preserves British border controls. [34533]

Miss Widdecombe

We have no plans to raise the issue of border controls at the next meeting of the Justice and Home Affairs Council.