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1011568

registered interest
date	21/11/2018
answering body	Department for Exiting the European Union
answering dept id	203
answering dept short name	Exiting the European Union
answering dept sort name	Exiting the European Union
hansard heading	EU Law
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, with reference to article 127 of the Draft agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community, under what circumstances the UK will be able to refuse to be bound by the Union law imposed by that article; and what steps it will be possible to take to remedy situations in which Union law during the transition is not in the UK national interest.
tabling member constituency	Witham
tabling member printed	Priti Patel
uin	194185
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2018 answer text <p>We have provided for a time-limited implementation period precisely to give businesses and citizens certainty. This means that common rules will remain in place until the end of the period, allowing businesses to trade on the same terms as now up until the end of 2020.</p><p>It takes on average two years for significant new rules to pass through the EU, and it is therefore very unlikely that significant legislation will pass during the implementation period.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 28/11/2018 11:04:55 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
tabling member	4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel

1028524

registered interest
date	19/12/2018
answering body	Department for Exiting the European Union
answering dept id	203
answering dept short name	Exiting the European Union
answering dept sort name	Exiting the European Union
hansard heading	EU Law
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, which pieces of retained EU law it has identified as unable to operate effectively after Brexit but it which it does not intend to remedy or mitigate under the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C. McDonald
uin	203914
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2019 answer text <p>The EU (Withdrawal) Act is a crucial piece of legislation that ensures we have a functioning statute book on exit day, providing certainty to people and businesses across the UK. A central list is not held in the form requested, but the Government remains confident of ensuring a functioning statute book for exit day.</p><p /> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 07/01/2019 11:07:08 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

1087550

registered interest
date	12/03/2019
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many pieces of EU legislation have been passed as "A" items in the Council of Ministers in each of the last ten years.
tabling member printed	Lord Pearson of Rannoch
uin	HL14470
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2019 answer text <p>​The Foreign and Commonwealth Office does not hold this information centrally. The European Union (EU) website provides information on EU legislation including the number of regulations, directives and decisions adopted by the EU. This information is available by month and by year.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 21/03/2019 14:42:30 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	3153 label Biography information for Lord Pearson of Rannoch

1144194

registered interest
date	03/09/2019
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon on 6 August (HL17479), how many EU laws have been approved by the Council of Ministers since 2009.
tabling member printed	Lord Pearson of Rannoch
uin	HL17682
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">It has not proved possible to respond to this question in the time available before Prorogation. Ministers will correspond directly with the Member.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">This information is not held centrally and to compile it would incur disproportionate cost. Information on EU legislation can be found on the Council website.</ins></p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 09/09/2019 16:25:18 question first ministerially corrected 01/10/2019 10:49:24 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon previous answer version 133936 answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	3153 label Biography information for Lord Pearson of Rannoch

385467

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 assessment he has made of the effects on the implementation of EU law in the UK of removing the words ever closer union from the preamble to the EU Treaties on Article 1 of the Treaty on European Union.
tabling member constituency	Bury North
tabling member printed	Mr David Nuttall
uin	4003
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2015 answer text <p>'Ever Closer Union' has been directly referenced in 23 cases of the Court of Justice of the European Union since 2005. The Prime Minister, my right hon. Friend the Member for Witney (Mr Cameron), has been clear that ever closer union might be right for some, but it is not right for Britain.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 02/07/2015 14:50:42 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	4140 label Biography information for Mr David Nuttall

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
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

385469

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 effect the 1992 Edinburgh Agreement had on the application of EU treaties in the UK; and whether it is his Department's assumption that the European Court of Justice is obliged to follow the provisions of that Agreement.
tabling member constituency	Bury North
tabling member printed	Mr David Nuttall
uin	4123
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2015 answer text <p>The Edinburgh Agreement addressed specific Danish concerns with the Maastricht Treaty. Those parts of the Agreement that remained relevant following the 1997 Treaty of Amsterdam were reflected in the EU Treaties by means of a protocol which is binding on the European Court of Justice and on the Member States.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 30/06/2015 15:07:27 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	4140 label Biography information for Mr David Nuttall

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
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

388613

registered interest
date	08/07/2015
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 (a) the UK, (b) France and (c) Germany voted against proposed EU legislation in the Council of Ministers that was approved by a qualified majority in each year from 2010 to 2014.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	6095
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2015 answer text <p>The Govenment does not keep a centralised record of this information, but the information requested regarding voting records of aa Member States on EU legislation is publicly available on the website of the Council of Ministers. These records go back to 1999.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 15/07/2015 15:29:06 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

388614

registered interest
date	08/07/2015
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 pieces of proposed EU legislation were approved by a qualified majority in the EU Council of Ministers despite either the UK, France or Germany voting against that legislation in each year from 2010 to 2014.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	6094
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2015 answer text <p>The information requested regarding voting records of Member States on EU legislation is publicly available on the website of the Council of Ministers. These records go back to 1999.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 15/07/2015 15:28:42 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft