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European Communities (Finance) Bill

I am grateful for that round of applause from Conservative Members. Surely the important point about the auditors' figures is that nearly all the problem areas involve member states' expenditure rather than the Commission's. We and the Commission have been trying to argue for some time, although Conservative Members have been opposed, for the Commission to have increased powers to investigate how that money is spent in member states. Is it not incumbent on those who argue against qualified majority voting sometimes to explain what the problems are?