Linked Data API

Show Search Form

Search Results

455139
registered interest false more like this
date less than 2016-02-25more like thismore than 2016-02-25
answering body
Foreign and Commonwealth Office more like this
answering dept id 16 more like this
answering dept short name Foreign and Commonwealth Office more like this
answering dept sort name Foreign and Commonwealth Office more like this
hansard heading UK Membership of EU more like this
house id 2 more like this
legislature
25277
pref label House of Lords more like this
question text To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the Decision of the Heads of State or Government, meeting within the European Council, concerning a new settlement for the UK within the EU returns to the UK Parliament any competences that are presently conferred on the EU by Title 1 of Part One of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. more like this
tabling member printed
Lord Hamilton of Epsom more like this
uin HL6444 more like this
answer
answer
is ministerial correction false more like this
date of answer less than 2016-03-14more like thismore than 2016-03-14
answer text <p>The deal agreed at the February European Council delivers a binding commitment that the Treaties will be changed in the future so that the UK is carved out of ‘ever closer union’. It ensures that the UK will not be liable for eurozone bailouts or discriminated against in the Single Market, and that the Treaties will be changed to reflect that. It establishes a new mechanism for the European Council to review EU legislation every year to see what can be done better at the national level and what can be dropped altogether. It ensures that Parliament will be able, acting with others in Europe, to block unwanted new EU laws. The deal also secures new powers to tackle the abuse of free movement and reduce the unnatural draw of our benefits system, to meet our aim of reducing immigration, by creating fairer rules, while protecting our open economy.</p><p> </p> more like this
answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns more like this
question first answered
less than 2016-03-14T12:28:13Zmore like thismore than 2016-03-14T12:28:13Z
answering member
3474
label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns more like this
tabling member
100
label Biography information for Lord Hamilton of Epsom more like this