Section 5 of the European Communities (Amendment) Act 1993

The important point here is that the United Kingdom is not obliged to converge with other EU memb...

But surely the purpose of tabling the numbers to the Commission is that it puts it under what it ...

It is the case that the provision dates back to the Maastricht treaty—no doubt my hon. Friend the...

I know my hon. Friend listened to what I said in my point of order, so I would like to address th...

I will return to that point later, but let me address it in short now. The information provided t...

Why?

Because that is what the law requires us to do.

It would not seem proportionate, in these c...

I just want to put this to bed. I have made the point that the documentation cannot be accurate—u...

Our principled approach over several years has been that the documentation provided to the Commis...

On the accuracy of the information being transmitted to the Commission, there is another matter, ...

Again, I make the same principled point. We provide information already published in these report...

This process takes place, as we both know, every year, and we have this debate every year. What, ...

Apart from the fact that the law requires us to do this, I would tell my hon. Friend that the UK ...

I have to say that I have some sympathy with the hon. Member for Stone (Sir William Cash) and the...

In the light of the strictures that the hon. Gentleman has imposed on his former Prime Minister, ...

Network Rail should be included; future pension liabilities should not.

The Chancellor is f...

Order. I will just point out for the benefit of the House that we have an hour and four minutes o...

I have already made my point about the inaccuracy embedded in the report and need not repeat any ...

I remind my hon. Friend that, even today, when Germany would say that she is very virtuous in hav...

My right hon. Friend is, of course, right about that, as he really understands all these things. ...

I wish to put on the record again the position with regard to the single market, and I would real...

Does my hon. Friend agree that £12 billion of the £58 billion deficit with the European Union is ...

It has been said in the past that the House of Commons is the only lunatic asylum that is run by ...

In case the Minister does not answer, let me say that a sizeable proportion of the imports that B...

I can only refer to the fact that these are ONS figures. They are endorsed and verified by the Ho...

I share the concern of my hon. Friend the Member for Stone (Sir William Cash) about page 19 and t...

May I add that the rule that sets the 60% target also states that member states in breach must ha...

All the Governments are failing to do that, and it is even more pressing and difficult for a coun...

The debate has addressed both the Budget and our membership of the European Union, so I am gratef...