§ Mr. BercowTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list those proposals, originally set out in Corpus Juris, which are under discussion at EU level(a) separately and (b) conjointly; and what his policy is regarding the exercise of the UK's veto in each case. [137896]
§ Mr. Charles ClarkeI refer the hon. Member to the reply given by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, my hon. and noble Friend Lord Bassam of Brighton, in another place on 25 October 2000,Official Report, House of Lords, column 45WA.
708Wfor the years 1997–98, 1998–99 and 1999–2000. Data for cruelty to or neglect of children were not collected separately prior to April 1998.
The Corpus Juris proposals as a whole have not been discussed in any meeting of the Council of the European Union (EU). A proposal by the Commission concerning the creation of a European Public Prosecutor has been discussed briefly in the Inter-governmental Conference (IGC) but the United Kingdom, as well as the majority of other EU member states, opposed its inclusion in the Treaty of Nice.