Business of the House (Lisbon Treaty) (No. 8)

My hon. Friend has scrutinised the treaty in detail, and as usual he has made an important point. The Government said that there were only 50 vetoes, but on the day of the foreign policy and defence debate, they released an answer saying, ““Oops! Sorry! There are 51 vetoes, and the extra one relates to defence.”” We did not get an opportunity to debate that, either. On day six in Committee of the whole House, we debated international development. There were two groups of amendments, and we actually reached the second group for five minutes.