Qualified Majority Voting (Hansard, 30 November 2000)

HC Deb 30 November 2000 vol 357 cc833-4W 833W

§ Mr. Spring
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if, for the purposes of the Government's policy on qualified majority voting, Treaty Articles 24 TEU; 62(2)(a) TEC; 62(2)(b)(ii) TEC;834W 62(2)(b)(iv) TEC; 62(3) TEC; 63(2)(a) TEC; 63(3)(b) TEC; and 66 TEC fall within the definition of border controls. [140966]

§ Mr. Vaz
The Government consider border controls to be the ability to control the flow of persons across the UK's frontiers. We have made clear we will insist on retaining unanimity for frontier controls.