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385468

	registered interest
	date	24/06/2015
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	EU Law
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what information his Department holds on how many European Court of Justice cases have cited the words Ever Closer Union from the preamble to the EU Treaties and Article 1 of the Treaty on European Union in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Bury North
	tabling member printed	Mr David Nuttall
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	4004
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2015 answer text <p>Twenty three judgments, opinions or orders of the Court of Justice and the General Court have contained references to “ever closer union” since 2005.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 03/07/2015 13:15:28 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
	tabling member	4140 label Biography information for Mr David Nuttall

78891

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2014
	answering body	Department for Culture Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	EU Law
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many times the UK has lost EU infraction proceedings since May 2010 which relate to matters that fall within his Department's responsibility.
	tabling member constituency	Wokingham
	tabling member printed	Mr John Redwood
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	206652
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2014 answer text <p>There have not been any instances where the UK has lost infraction proceedings since May 2010 which relate to matters falling within DCMS’ responsibilities.</p> answering member constituency Maidstone and The Weald answering member printed Mrs Helen Grant question first answered 09/09/2014 11:46:20 answering member 4018 label Biography information for Mrs Helen Grant
	tabling member	14 label Biography information for Sir John Redwood

385470

	registered interest
	date	24/06/2015
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	EU Law
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many times the procedure provided for in Council Decision 2009/857/EC on the implementation of Article 16(4) of the Treaty on European Union has been invoked in each of the years since that Decision entered force; what the concerns of the member states that invoked the procedure were in each such case; and how those concerns were met in the final decision taken in each such case.
	tabling member constituency	Bury North
	tabling member printed	Mr David Nuttall
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	4126
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2015 answer text <p>The purpose of Council Decision 2009/857/EC on the implementation of Article 16(4) of the Treaty on European Union is to allow Member States that are close to but do not constitute a blocking minority to request that the Council defer adoption of a measure for a period of time to allow for further discussions with a view to resolving the concerns that they have raised. It came into effect with the introduction of the changed system of calculating a Qualified Majority on 1 November 2014. Although the Government does not keep data on this provision, to the best of our knowledge it has not been invoked.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 03/07/2015 13:17:32 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
	tabling member	4140 label Biography information for Mr David Nuttall

78903

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	EU Law
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many times the UK has lost EU infraction proceedings since May 2010 which relate to matters that fall within her Department's responsibility.
	tabling member constituency	Wokingham
	tabling member printed	Mr John Redwood
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	206654
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/08/2014 answer text <p>The UK has never been fined for an infraction.</p><p>Since May 2010, the UK has not lost any EU infraction proceedings that relate to matters that fall within the Department for Education’s responsibility.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 28/08/2014 10:57:08 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
	tabling member	14 label Biography information for Sir John Redwood

78941

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2014
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	EU Law
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many times the UK has lost EU infraction proceedings since May 2010 which relate to matters that fall within his Department's responsibility.
	tabling member constituency	Wokingham
	tabling member printed	Mr John Redwood
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	206664
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/09/2014 answer text <p>The UK has never been fined for an infraction.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 01/09/2014 16:18:05 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
	tabling member	14 label Biography information for Sir John Redwood

78892

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	EU Law
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many times the UK has lost EU infraction proceedings since May 2010 which relate to matters that fall within his Department's responsibility.
	tabling member constituency	Wokingham
	tabling member printed	Mr John Redwood
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	206653
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2014 answer text <p>The UK has never been fined for an infraction for matters within the Ministry of Defence's responsibility.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Canterbury answering member printed Mr Julian Brazier question first answered 30/07/2014 11:47:36 answering member 77 label Biography information for Sir Julian Brazier
	tabling member	14 label Biography information for Sir John Redwood

89633

	registered interest
	date	29/08/2014
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	EU Law
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what fines have been levied on the UK Government for non-compliance with EU directives since November 2012.
	tabling member constituency	Wokingham
	tabling member printed	Mr John Redwood
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	207280
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2014 answer text <p>The UK Government has not been fined for non-compliance with EU directives since November 2012.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 05/09/2014 10:47:12 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
	tabling member	14 label Biography information for Sir John Redwood

89519

	registered interest
	date	29/08/2014
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	EU Law
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many new EU directives and regulations have been transposed into UK law by his Department since May 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Wokingham
	tabling member printed	Mr John Redwood
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	207254
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p>The Recast of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive came into force on 19 May 2010, with a transposition date of 9 January 2013.</p><p>The Departmental portfolio includes EU Regulations that do not require transposition such as the EU Construction Products Regulation which was adopted in March 2011 and came fully into force in July 2013 and the European Structural and Investment Funds Regulations.<br><br>It is the Department's policy under this Government to avoid and reverse the gold-plating of EU directives by the Labour Government; for example, we have done this on the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive by scaling back the rules on Energy Performance Certificates to the minimum requirements of the directive and scrapping Home Information Packs.<br><br>We also wish to renegotiate powers back to the United Kingdom where appropriate; as a small but pertinent example, my Department has successfully removed the legal requirement in the European Regional Development Fund Regulations (introduced in 2006 under the Labour Government) to fly the EU flag outside our building for one week a year after Europe Day.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 13/10/2014 15:18:10 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
	tabling member	14 label Biography information for Sir John Redwood

89419

	registered interest
	date	29/08/2014
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	EU Law
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many new EU directives and regulations have been transposed into UK law by the Law Officers' Departments since May 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Wokingham
	tabling member printed	Mr John Redwood
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	207252
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2014 answer text <p>The Law Officers' Departments have not transposed any EU directives or regulations into UK law since May 2010.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Mr Robert Buckland question first answered 03/09/2014 13:37:35 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	14 label Biography information for Sir John Redwood

78904

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2014
	answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept id	63
	answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
	hansard heading	EU Law
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many times the UK has lost EU infraction proceedings since May 2010 which relate to matters that fall within his Department's responsibility.
	tabling member constituency	Wokingham
	tabling member printed	Mr John Redwood
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	206655
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/09/2014 answer text <p>The Government has not lost any EU infraction proceedings brought against the UK since 2010 relating to matters falling within the Department’s responsibility.</p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 01/09/2014 10:23:40 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
	tabling member	14 label Biography information for Sir John Redwood