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date	17/03/2015
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	European Parliament
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 the cost of the European Parliament having a base in both Strasbourg and Brussels.
tabling member constituency	Shrewsbury and Atcham
tabling member printed	Daniel Kawczynski
uin	227950
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2015 answer text The EU Court of Auditors estimates that a move to a “single seat” for the European Parliament would save €113 million a year, while the European Parliament’s own “Single Seat” campaign estimates the saving at about €180 million a year, and a reduction of the EP’s carbon footprint by 40%. The UK welcomes the support from within the European Parliament for the move to a single seat and hopes that Members of the European Parliament push this issue up the political agenda. The UK’s position is well known: we are in favour of a single seat. The current arrangements are expensive, impractical and indefensible on environmental grounds. Moving to a single seat would require Treaty change and the agreement of all Member States. answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 24/03/2015 14:53:59 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	1566 label Biography information for Daniel Kawczynski

175089

registered interest
date	21/01/2015
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	European Parliament
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he is taking to bring about reform of the two seat operation of the European Parliament.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Mike Weatherley
uin	221504
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2015 answer text The UK’s position is well known among other Member States; we are in favour of a single seat. The current arrangements are expensive, impractical and indefensible on environmental grounds. A move to a single seat would require Treaty change and the common accord of all Member States. We welcome the support from within the European Parliament for the move to a single seat. Pressure from Members of the European Parliament themselves to make this change should help push this issue up the political agenda throughout the European Union. answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 28/01/2015 16:11:09 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	3984 label Biography information for Mike Weatherley

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registered interest
date	20/10/2014
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	European Parliament
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the amount of subsidy paid to each of the European Parliament’s political groups annually.
tabling member printed	Lord Stoddart of Swindon
uin	HL2232
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2014 answer text <p>The annual accounts for all groups are available on the European Parliament (EP) website. The last year for which figures are available is 2013:</p><p>European People’s Party: €21,680,180</p><p>Progressive Alliance of Socialists &amp; Democrats (S&amp;D): €15,387,789.85</p><p>Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE): €6,718,994.35</p><p>Greens/EFA: €4,365,639.83</p><p>GUE/NGL: €2,657,578.33</p><p>European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR): €4,046,038.85</p><p>Europe of Freedom and Democracy (EFD): €2,614,225.43</p><p>Non -Attached: €1,315,501</p><p>Link to accounts on EP website: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/groups/accounts_en.htm</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 04/11/2014 12:32:15 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon