§ Mr. MacleanTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on Her Majesty's Government's policy on European Commission proposal COM (1998) 733; what assessment his Department has made of its impact on the(a) number of asylum applicants, (b) number of rejected asylum applicants, (c) repatriation of asylum applicants and (d) costs of repatriating asylum applicants. [75557]
§ Kate HoeyHer Majesty's Government's current view on Commission proposal COM (1998) 733 is contained within the Home Office Explanatory Memorandum dated 8 February 1999, a copy of which was deposited in the Library. The proposal remains under consideration.