HC Deb 08 July 1997 vol 297 cc417-8W
28. Mr. Blunt

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the policy areas in the Amsterdam inter-governmental treaty in which he proposed the introduction of qualified majority voting, but failed to achieve agreement. [5757]

Mr. Doug Henderson

Discussion of QMV in the IGC was based on Presidency proposals. These included introducing QMV in areas such as industry and the environment, where the UK supported some extension of QMV, but on which there was ultimately no agreement.

34. Mr. Clappison

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his answer to the hon. member for Daventry (Mr. Boswell) on 23 June,Official Report, column 346, if he will make a statement on the impact of the extension of qualified majority voting under the Amsterdam Treaty. [5763]

Mr. Henderson

We fully support the modest extension of qualified majority voting agreed at Amsterdam which will help effective decision making in areas like fraud and research and development.