My Lords, I am very grateful to the Minister, not only for coming today, with her very busy schedule but for spending time on this important but, for obvious reasons, fairly brief debate. She has added a great deal of important argument to the background to this proposal for legislation. It is precisely because people in this country, who are not in any way fanatical about Europe one way or the other, feel strongly—I have had quite a lot of mail on this subject—that the Government hesitate all too often in the face of a difficult press, and that further institutional and legislative arrangements to provide more information on a regular basis, more prevalent and in more places but entirely permissive and definitely not mandatory, would serve this country well.
European Union (Information, etc.) Bill [HL]
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Dykes
(Liberal Democrat)
in the House of Lords on Friday, 15 December 2006.
It occurred during Debate on bills on European Union (Information etc.) Bill [HL].
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