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Debate on bill and Committee of the Whole House (HC) on Tuesday, 15 January 2008, in the House of Commons, led by Andy Burnham. The answering member was Lord Hammond of Runnymede.

European Communities (Finance) Bill

European Communities (Finance) Bill. Programme motion (No 2) on proceedings in Committee, on Report and Third reading, agreed to on question. Committee stage debate. Clauses 1 and 2 agreed to. New clause 1 negatived on division (216 to 301). Bill reported without amendment. Third reading debate. Agreed to on division (309 to 208). Bill passed.

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2007-08
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Proceeding contributions
Andy Burnham | 470 c840-1 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Sir Alan. I do not disagree with the point made by the shadow Chief Secretary. Of course,...
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 470 c840 (Link to this contribution) I can say to the hon. Gentleman that I have selected new clause 1 for debate and, if time allows, it...
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Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 470 c840 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. The Chief Secretary is suggesting that it will not be possi...
Andy Burnham | 470 c840 (Link to this contribution) That is precisely the point; it is what I said at the start. Hon. Members on both sides of the Commi...
Andy Burnham | 470 c841 (Link to this contribution) As the right hon. Gentleman knows, a very prudent decision was taken to increase public expenditure ...
Lord Redwood | 470 c841 (Link to this contribution) Given that the decision was negotiated some time ago, perhaps when the Government agreed to it they ...
Andy Burnham | 470 c841 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman misunderstands me—wilfully, I believe. I tell him directly that the Committee and...
Richard Shepherd | 470 c841 (Link to this contribution) I am extremely grateful to the Chief Secretary for giving way again. There is a fundamental point. S...
Andy Burnham | 470 c841-2 (Link to this contribution) I can probably do better. I refer the hon. Gentleman to paragraph 11 of the explanatory notes, which...
Andy Burnham | 470 c839 (Link to this contribution) I do not intend to delay the Committee for long, but I think that it is worth setting out the argume...
Andy Burnham | 470 c839 (Link to this contribution) In many ways, that betrays the problem with the Opposition's logic. The hon. Gentleman suggests that...
Peter Bone | 470 c839 (Link to this contribution) Surely if we reject the Bill tonight, the current system will stay in place and there will be no nee...
Andy Burnham | 470 c840 (Link to this contribution) As my hon. Friend knows, there are ample opportunities to debate European business in the House, bot...
Ian Davidson | 470 c839-40 (Link to this contribution) Do the Chief Secretary and the Government intend consistently to tell us that when European Union pr...
Richard Shepherd | 470 c840 (Link to this contribution) The Chief Secretary has forgotten the historical function of this House, which is to consent to the ...
Ian Davidson | 470 c862 (Link to this contribution) The evidence is in the reports that we have read. I am sure that my hon. Friend accepts that it is a...
Andy Burnham | 470 c862 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend compares what the UK Government did in the negotiations with the French Government's ...
Ian Davidson | 470 c862 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend deserves some credit for being hyperactive in defence of the Chief Secretary. It is n...
Ian Davidson | 470 c860-2 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Chief Secretary's willingness to take so many interventions because that allowed us to...
Rob Marris | 470 c862 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend says that a better deal was possible. I agree with the intellectual construct, just a...
Austin Mitchell | 470 c858-60 (Link to this contribution) I have a dreadful feeling that this discussion, which should be about value for money and whether we...
Vincent Cable | 470 c860 (Link to this contribution) Like the hon. Member for Runnymede and Weybridge (Mr. Hammond), I had not intended to speak in the s...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 470 c857-8 (Link to this contribution) I am going to make a little progress. [Interruption.] Well, as the hon. Gentleman took the trouble e...
Rob Marris | 470 c865-6 (Link to this contribution) This is not only a question of the financial benefits, which are debated and sometimes disputed. I w...
Lord Redwood | 470 c863-4 (Link to this contribution) I shall keep my remarks brief, because once again the Government are not allowing us proper time to ...
John Hayes | 470 c864 (Link to this contribution) I hope that right hon. Friend will not ignore the Chief Secretary's other two specious arguments. Th...
Lord Redwood | 470 c864-5 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for those extra points. I should like to make some additional ones, to finalise my cri...
Andy Burnham | 470 c865 (Link to this contribution) I shall do my best to respond to some of the points that have been raised, and I shall do so briefly...
Ian Davidson | 470 c862 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I do accept that France's net contribution will grow more quickly than the UK's, but I also acc...
Andy Burnham | 470 c863 (Link to this contribution) Again, however, would my hon. Friend not accept that spending on the common agricultural policy will...
Ian Davidson | 470 c863 (Link to this contribution) I return to my original point: the deal is not nearly as bad as it could have been, but it is not as...
Ian Davidson | 470 c847 (Link to this contribution) May I clarify whether the rebate arrangement is the same as it was at the time of Second Reading: th...
Andy Burnham | 470 c846-7 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is entitled to reach that opinion. I said clearly that the own resources decision...
Andy Burnham | 470 c847 (Link to this contribution) I understand my hon. Friend's point. He is correct that that is how the rebate is calculated, but ov...
Charles Walker | 470 c847 (Link to this contribution) The Chief Secretary is being most generous in giving way. Surely he is mistaken—the Prime Minister c...
Andy Burnham | 470 c847 (Link to this contribution) We are negotiating a lower and more prudent budget. The last Government failed to do that, as the ri...
Andy Burnham | 470 c846 (Link to this contribution) We have been over this ground already today. We have preserved the basis of the rebate. The hon. Gen...
Bernard Jenkin | 470 c846 (Link to this contribution) I am mystified by what the Chief Secretary is saying. In previous enlargements, the EU admitted both...
Andy Burnham | 470 c846 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is advancing a pub argument. He knows that such matters are periodically reviewed...
Bernard Jenkin | 470 c846 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Chief Secretary for cross-examining me on that matter. I accepted that there wo...
Rob Marris | 470 c848 (Link to this contribution) I think that the United Kingdom should be a full member of the European Union. One of the very few g...
Andy Burnham | 470 c848 (Link to this contribution) It is a bit late for the right hon. Gentleman to say that he did not agree with those budget increas...
Lord Redwood | 470 c848 (Link to this contribution) The Chief Secretary is misrepresenting what I said. I thought that those increases were too high whe...
Andy Burnham | 470 c848 (Link to this contribution) The final year? I do not have that particular calculation to hand. I shall come back to the hon. Gen...
Andy Burnham | 470 c848-9 (Link to this contribution) I agree entirely with my hon. Friend. That point has been illustrated. Opposition Members were tryin...
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 470 c847 (Link to this contribution) Order. The scope of this debate is not so wide as to take in police pay.
Andy Burnham | 470 c848 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman needs to explain himself. Is he saying that contributions will be that much highe...
Andy Burnham | 470 c847 (Link to this contribution) In all matters, the Government will take decisions that support economic competitiveness and strengt...
Andy Burnham | 470 c843-4 (Link to this contribution) I do not believe that that is how the previous Conservative Government conducted their European nego...
Lord Lilley | 470 c843 (Link to this contribution) I do not think that the Minister realises that the opposition expressed this evening by members of v...
Andy Burnham | 470 c844 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman nods. Well, this is the decision that pays for EU enlargement. The Oppositi...
Andy Burnham | 470 c843 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his intervention and for his request that we move on to the deta...
Rob Marris | 470 c843 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for his patience in explaining the process. It is clear that t...
Andy Burnham | 470 c843 (Link to this contribution) I seem to remember that the former Prime Minister came back to the House on more than occasion—after...
Mike Hancock | 470 c843 (Link to this contribution) Earlier, the Chief Secretary said that the former Prime Minister brought the deal back to the House ...
Stewart Hosie | 470 c842 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the thrust of the Bill. I am a pro-European who wants to see the European Union work. I...
Andy Burnham | 470 c842 (Link to this contribution) The deal was agreed more than two years ago, and it is important that the UK honours its obligation ...
Bernard Jenkin | 470 c845 (Link to this contribution) May I correct the Chief Secretary on a point of fact? The EU had only 12 member states at the time o...
Rob Marris | 470 c845 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend spoke briefly about the origins of the rebate. Was it not the case that Mrs. Th...
Philip Davies | 470 c844 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful, as no one on the Conservative Benches, let alone a Minister, has ever before describe...
Andy Burnham | 470 c844 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way to the hon. Member for Shipley (Philip Davies), the leading light of the ““Better O...
Andy Burnham | 470 c844 (Link to this contribution) We went over this on Second Reading. The hon. Gentleman may not have understood that the own resourc...
Lord Redwood | 470 c856 (Link to this contribution) Has my hon. Friend noticed that the Chief Secretary clearly does not understand numbers, as he says ...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 470 c854 (Link to this contribution) I shall be fascinated to hear the answer to that question.
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 470 c854-5 (Link to this contribution) That was an exercise in the rewriting of history that Stalin would have been proud of. The facts are...
Rob Marris | 470 c854 (Link to this contribution) I do not know much about the hon. Gentleman's former working life, although he knows a bit about min...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 470 c855 (Link to this contribution) I remind the Chief Secretary that it was a Conservative Government who achieved the UK rebate in the...
Andy Burnham | 470 c855 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman dismount from his high horse for a moment and tell us whether he considers t...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 470 c855-6 (Link to this contribution) We do not have to take a view on that; we can look at what the Court of Auditors has said about corr...
Andy Burnham | 470 c855 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree with the statement made by the hon. Member for Shipley (Philip Davies)...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 470 c857 (Link to this contribution) Let me rephrase my comment. If the hon. Gentleman had heard my earlier remark, he would know that th...
Rob Marris | 470 c856 (Link to this contribution) I can see where the hon. Gentleman is going, and I think that I understand his position, although he...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 470 c856 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman had been here earlier—
Sion Simon | 470 c856 (Link to this contribution) Surely the hon. Gentleman can hear himself saying, ““Can we have a sensible debate which says that w...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 470 c856 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has fabricated that. I did not say that at all. This is how I would like to see t...
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 470 c857 (Link to this contribution) I think that the hon. Member for Birmingham, Erdington (Mr. Simon) has made his point.
Sion Simon | 470 c857 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mrs. Heal. Is it in order for the hon. Gentleman to keep saying, ““If the hon. ...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 470 c857 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman had been here earlier—[Interruption.]
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 470 c849 (Link to this contribution) Order. I hope that the hon. Gentleman will not take us to new clause 1, because we are debating whet...
Stewart Hosie | 470 c850 (Link to this contribution) I apologise, Mrs. Heal. The Minister said that the hon. Member for Glasgow, South-West (Mr. Davidson...
Andy Burnham | 470 c850 (Link to this contribution) We have provided that detail. The deal has not been done in secret. Parliamentary answers have been ...
Andy Burnham | 470 c849 (Link to this contribution) That is a completely legitimate position to take, but it does not give sufficient recognition to the...
Ian Davidson | 470 c849 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my comrade the Minister for giving way, because it allows us to have a decent debat...
Stewart Hosie | 470 c849 (Link to this contribution) I think that the House is well aware of the Minister's generosity. I want to bring him back to new c...
Andy Burnham | 470 c849 (Link to this contribution) How many interventions do the Opposition want me to take? The Opposition's position probably explain...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 470 c854 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will know that if the Bill is passed tonight and the ““own resources”” decision i...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 470 c853-4 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend, who has saved me the trouble of setting out the case for the UK reb...
Rob Marris | 470 c854 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his usual generosity in giving way, which I have experienced many tim...
Bernard Jenkin | 470 c853 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has made his point most eloquently. Will he go on to explain why the rebate is necess...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 470 c852-3 (Link to this contribution) It was not my original intention to speak, at least in any substantial way, in the debate on clause ...
Andy Burnham | 470 c851-2 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a very big statement for somebody who represents a party that claims to wis...
Philip Davies | 470 c851 (Link to this contribution) The Minister said earlier that we were not taking into account the way that the EU operates. The pro...
Rob Marris | 470 c851 (Link to this contribution) Would I be right in thinking that the way in which Netherlands and Sweden were able to negotiate the...
Andy Burnham | 470 c850 (Link to this contribution) I shall make progress and get some facts on the record about the effects of the own resources decisi...
Andy Burnham | 470 c866 (Link to this contribution) I entirely agree. The benefits of the decision that the European Union has taken on helping those ec...
Lord Lilley | 470 c866 (Link to this contribution) On the question of putting facts on the record, the right hon. Gentleman's Government have already p...
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 470 c870 (Link to this contribution) The way in which hon. Members address the Committee, provided that it is within the normal terms of ...
Sion Simon | 470 c870 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Sir Michael. Will you please explain whether there is a level of patronising be...
Lord Lilley | 470 c872-3 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an important point. He mentioned that Peter Mandelson has been ominously qu...
Vincent Cable | 470 c873 (Link to this contribution) That is a helpful intervention. I do not know how significant those commissioner's comments are, but...
Peter Bone | 470 c876 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the new clause, which has given the Government a get-out-of-jail card. I am sure that the ...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 470 c870-1 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Sir Michael. In any case, if I have not reached that level yet, I will continue to practi...
Andy Burnham | 470 c871 (Link to this contribution) Has the hon. Gentleman made any inquiries of the European Commission about when the review is likely...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 470 c871-2 (Link to this contribution) Paragraph 80 of the Council's decision at Brussels in December 2005 sets out parameters for a review...
Vincent Cable | 470 c872 (Link to this contribution) I am rather tempted by the new clause. As I said in the clause stand part debate, there was a major ...
Andy Burnham | 470 c866-7 (Link to this contribution) I have referred to these figures before in the debate. The net contribution is published in the pre-...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 470 c870 (Link to this contribution) I was not here then and nor was the hon. Gentleman. The answer is no, I will not cast my mind back; ...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 470 c869 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. I can see that the Minister, if he ever gets ...
Sion Simon | 470 c869-70 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman cast his mind back to the protracted debates on the Maastricht treaty? If it...
John Hayes | 470 c868 (Link to this contribution) The tragedy of the Minister's opening remarks failed to impress, so he is now obviously trying comed...
Andy Burnham | 470 c868 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman knows, the reform of CAP did not begin with this own resources decision. These...
Andy Burnham | 470 c868 (Link to this contribution) Indeed; it could be substantially worse. I believe that the best way to be heard and get constructiv...
Rob Marris | 470 c867 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow, South-West (Mr. Davidson) asserted that a better deal was pos...
Andy Burnham | 470 c867-8 (Link to this contribution) I am not. Throughout the debate, I have said that this was the best possible deal that we could secu...
Andy Burnham | 470 c878 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman shakes his head and laughs, but that is a very important point. The White Paper w...
John Hayes | 470 c877 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has enlightened the House with those figures. They stand in stark contrast with the a...
Peter Bone | 470 c877 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that intervention, Sir Michael, but I am sure that you would rule me out of order ...
Andy Burnham | 470 c878 (Link to this contribution) I shall try to answer the points raised in the debate on new clause 1, which talks about the ““outco...
Peter Bone | 470 c877-8 (Link to this contribution) I can only quote from the table in the written answer given by the hon. Member for Bury, South (Mr. ...
William Cash | 470 c876-7 (Link to this contribution) On the subject of the former Prime Minister and the current Prime Minister, does my hon. Friend thin...
Peter Bone | 470 c877 (Link to this contribution) That seems possible. The previous Prime Minister said that he would serve a full term, which he did ...
Jim Devine | 470 c877 (Link to this contribution) Let us be honest. Does the hon. Gentleman believe that Britain should be in the EU—yes or no?
Andy Burnham | 470 c880 (Link to this contribution) I am disappointed that the hon. Gentleman did not let me finish my point. The Commission document sa...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 470 c880 (Link to this contribution) The point that the Chief Secretary made earlier is that the outcome of the review is not the final, ...
Andy Burnham | 470 c879 (Link to this contribution) I will give way one last time to the shadow Chief Secretary, but I am trying to answer seriously the...
Andy Burnham | 470 c879 (Link to this contribution) In his comments, the hon. Gentleman asked whether the effect of that review could be felt before 201...
Andy Burnham | 470 c879 (Link to this contribution) Let me finish the point. The other consequence is what one might call a diplomatic or political cons...
Vincent Cable | 470 c879 (Link to this contribution) If the Chief Secretary believes that the outcome can be assessed only at the end of 2008, why did th...
Andy Burnham | 470 c878-9 (Link to this contribution) No, I do not think that that is what the new clause proposes. It states:"““The condition referred to...
Vincent Cable | 470 c879 (Link to this contribution) Will the Chief Secretary give way?
Andy Burnham | 470 c885 (Link to this contribution) In my view, there is a difference between the application of the rebate in respect of the contributi...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 470 c885 (Link to this contribution) The Government said ““non-negotiable””.
Andy Burnham | 470 c885-6 (Link to this contribution) Not at all. I do not think that he has been listening closely to what I said. [Interruption.] I beli...
Peter Bone | 470 c885 (Link to this contribution) Is the Chief Secretary making a new announcement? I thought that the Government had provided 20 days...
Philip Hollobone | 470 c886 (Link to this contribution) The Chief Secretary claims that there are great benefits to the British economy in paying a huge mem...
Andy Burnham | 470 c884 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time. This has been a long but good debate. [Hon...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 470 c884 (Link to this contribution) Was that the outcome that the Government anticipated in May 2005?
Andy Burnham | 470 c884-5 (Link to this contribution) We have been over this ground all evening. This Government were clear about what they were seeking t...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 470 c885 (Link to this contribution) I have a question for the Chief Secretary. How would he characterise the position of the British Gov...
Andy Burnham | 470 c885 (Link to this contribution) We are going over and over this ground, and the hon. Gentleman will not accept that there is a diffe...
Vincent Cable | 470 c889-90 (Link to this contribution) Given that those on the Front Benches effectively made their Third Reading speeches in the debate on...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 470 c888 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point. We are entitled to ask this question: when the then Prime Ministe...
Philip Hollobone | 470 c888 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend share my concern that, in effect, the British people have been misled? During th...
Andy Burnham | 470 c886 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman must make a judgment about that. Conservative Members must be honest and ask them...
Andy Burnham | 470 c887 (Link to this contribution) Let us get down to brass tacks. The hon. Gentleman might not agree, but my position is that British ...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 470 c887-8 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry that the Chief Secretary was so disparaging about new clause 1. It was a modestly phrased...
Andy Burnham | 470 c886 (Link to this contribution) Let me put a proposition to the hon. Gentleman. When the Republic of Ireland acceded to the European...
Richard Shepherd | 470 c886-7 (Link to this contribution) The Chief Secretary claimed that inward investment had increased fourfold under the Government's mal...
Bernard Jenkin | 470 c892 (Link to this contribution) I had better give way to the Chief Secretary first, but I will give way to my hon. Friend afterwards...
Andy Burnham | 470 c892 (Link to this contribution) We could have a debate about fraud related to structural and cohesion funding, but did I hear the ho...
Bernard Jenkin | 470 c892 (Link to this contribution) I know that the right hon. Gentleman finds it hard to believe, but what has transformed the Irish ec...
Bernard Jenkin | 470 c891-2 (Link to this contribution) Of course it is a religious shrine. Perhaps the matter has something to do with the Catholic plot th...
Peter Bone | 470 c890 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Twickenham (Dr. Cable). Although we come from d...
Bernard Jenkin | 470 c891 (Link to this contribution) I listened to much of the opening skirmishes of the debate on clause 1 stand part, and I am afraid t...
Charles Walker | 470 c890-1 (Link to this contribution) I shall be very brief, as other Members want to speak. The Government have an obligation to ensure ...
Richard Shepherd | 470 c894 (Link to this contribution) One of the most interesting events of today was the contribution by the interim leader, if I may cal...
Speaker | 470 c894 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman has been here long enough to know that this is the Third Reading of the Bi...
Speaker | 470 c893 (Link to this contribution) Well, if the hon. Gentleman is going to finish shortly, he should talk about the Bill.
Bernard Jenkin | 470 c893 (Link to this contribution) I shall be finished shortly, Mr. Speaker.
Speaker | 470 c893 (Link to this contribution) Order. I believe that the hon. Gentleman has finished. Has he?
Bernard Jenkin | 470 c893 (Link to this contribution) I not only welcome what my hon. Friend has said, but I add that if public spending in Scotland and t...
Robert Goodwill | 470 c892 (Link to this contribution) On a point raised by the Chief Secretary, he might recall that three years ago his colleagues in She...
Richard Shepherd | 470 c894-5 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry; the hon. Gentleman is the former interim leader of the Liberal Democrats. He touched on ...
Andy Burnham | 470 c845 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely correct. The point he urges me to move on to, as he did in his previous...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 470 c856 (Link to this contribution) It is rather disconcerting if the Chief Secretary to the Treasury cannot add up, but we have learned...
Lord Lilley | 470 c873-6 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the opportunity to contribute to the debate, and I return to the subject of the ow...
Bernard Jenkin | 470 c894 (Link to this contribution) I shall sit down, but I should say that this Bill is about allocating very large sums of money to Eu...
Bernard Jenkin | 470 c893 (Link to this contribution) I am talking about the language of priorities and public spending, Mr. Speaker. This Bill has got th...
Vincent Cable | 470 c841 (Link to this contribution) Although the Liberal Democrat approach is different from that of the Conservatives, they are asking ...
Peter Bone | 470 c848 (Link to this contribution) Will the Chief Secretary confirm that net contributions under the prudent and great settlement that ...
Andy Burnham | 470 c844-5 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to acknowledge that the hon. Gentleman is a leading light and the intellectual driving fo...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 470 c844 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister explain how both the current and former Prime Ministers were able to say in May an...
Andy Burnham | 470 c849 (Link to this contribution) I am being criticised for not making progress, and for taking interventions. As long as the House re...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 470 c878 (Link to this contribution) What the Minister has described does not make the new clause defective. Instead, it makes it much ea...
Andy Burnham | 470 c851 (Link to this contribution) That is absolutely the point, and the nature of the complex negotiations that were finalised in 2005...
Subjects
Contributions Finance Expenditure EU enlargement EU budget Rebates Treaties Common agricultural policy
Legislation
European Communities (Finance) Bill 2007-08
Contains statistics
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