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European Council

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Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

517 c613-31 

Session

2010-12

Department

Prime Minister

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Proceeding contributions

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 517 c630 (Link to this contribution) What I can say is that when there was a motion in the European Parliament to support a freeze, 12 ou...

Julian Brazier | 517 c630 (Link to this contribution) In the light of my right hon. Friend's opening remarks and his comments on his bilateral with the Ge...

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Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 517 c629 (Link to this contribution) The point I can make is that 13 Heads of Government or Heads of State signed a letter saying they wo...

John Baron | 517 c629 (Link to this contribution) Given the extent of belt tightening in this country, does my right hon. Friend believe that now is t...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 517 c629 (Link to this contribution) I am on only my third European Council, and they are rather more frequent than they used to be, but ...

Lord Beamish | 517 c629 (Link to this contribution) Given that negotiations on the budget are continuing with the European Parliament, will the Prime Mi...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 517 c629 (Link to this contribution) I have a message for the Whips: you need to hand out more than one question; it is always better if ...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 517 c629-30 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an extremely good point. I can tell him that the Chancellor and I, in undertaki...

Charlie Elphicke | 517 c630 (Link to this contribution) May I congratulate my right hon. old Friend on his excellent statement—[Interruption] Well, having s...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 517 c629 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point. The first thing we are going to do is the initiative on transpare...

James Clappison | 517 c629 (Link to this contribution) May I congratulate my right hon. Friend on clearly standing up for Britain's interests? On the parts...

David Nuttall | 517 c624 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend for his statement. Given that the proposed treaty change apparently wil...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 517 c624 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a fair point, but I think the best option for the UK, because this is a very li...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 517 c624 (Link to this contribution) The answer is no, I did not do any of that. I am not quite sure what point the hon. Gentleman is mak...

Peter Bone | 517 c625 (Link to this contribution) As one pro-European who has concerns about the European Union to another, may I ask the Prime Minist...

Ian Davidson | 517 c624 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister's visit to Brussels cost British taxpayers £450 million or so. Where is that mone...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 517 c625 (Link to this contribution) If we had taken the approach of the previous Government, we would have just said, ““Never mind the i...

Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 517 c625 (Link to this contribution) As another of the Prime Minister's new friends, may I remind him that in 2010 family life takes many...

Baroness Hoey | 517 c625 (Link to this contribution) Did the Prime Minister get a chance to discuss with any of the leaders privately or publicly the lud...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 517 c625 (Link to this contribution) I do not believe in an in-out referendum for many reasons. I think we are better off in the European...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 517 c623 (Link to this contribution) It is important that we build alliances for what we are trying to achieve. I would say to all my rig...

Lord Watson of Wyre Forest | 517 c623 (Link to this contribution) At what we now know as the Prime Minister's ““delicious”” press conference, he questioned the number...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 517 c623 (Link to this contribution) I probably should not have used the word ““delicious””. I was just making the point, as we were talk...

Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom | 517 c623 (Link to this contribution) On the defence relationship with France to which my right hon. Friend referred, is he aware that I h...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 517 c623 (Link to this contribution) I am extremely glad that my right hon. Friend has forgiven the French, as I think he is joining me f...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 517 c623-4 (Link to this contribution) Obviously, we had to do the best we could with the 2011 budget. We now have the issues of 2012 and 2...

Conor Burns | 517 c624 (Link to this contribution) It is some 16 years since the European Court of Auditors last signed off the accounts. In welcoming ...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 517 c624 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the whole House will welcome Baroness Thatcher's better health and return from hospit...

Dennis Skinner | 517 c624 (Link to this contribution) After such a miserable failure on the budget freeze, did the Prime Minister console himself by thank...

Aidan Burley | 517 c628 (Link to this contribution) Has the Prime Minister had the chance to discuss security co-operation with the German Chancellor in...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 517 c628 (Link to this contribution) Yes. I did have that conversation, because the German Chancellor stayed at Chequers over the weekend...

Baroness Berger | 517 c627 (Link to this contribution) Has the Prime Minister made any calculation of how many new teachers, nurses or police officers coul...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 517 c627 (Link to this contribution) I have to say to the hon. Lady that one constructive thing that she and other Opposition Members cou...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 517 c627 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is entirely right. Britain does have leverage, influence and an impact in these negot...

Diana Johnson | 517 c628 (Link to this contribution) In the light of the estimated 20,000 job losses among police officers in this country, how many offi...

Nadhim Zahawi | 517 c628 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister quite rightly says that London is the financial heart of Europe. The chief execut...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 517 c628 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an extremely good point, and it goes to the heart of the point that my hon. Fri...

Chris Bryant | 517 c628 (Link to this contribution) Let me get this right. The Prime Minister failed to put together a blocking minority in July, and he...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 517 c628 (Link to this contribution) The difference between the hon. Gentleman and me is that when we were both at Oxford he was a member...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 517 c625-6 (Link to this contribution) I think there are prospects for our working together in this area, not least the French investment i...

Nia Griffith | 517 c626 (Link to this contribution) Following on from the Prime Minister's answer to his hon. Friend the Member for Stone (Mr Cash) in w...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 517 c626 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady asks a reasonable question. The Bill that we will be looking at will say that there sh...

Oliver Heald | 517 c626 (Link to this contribution) Does the Prime Minister accept that it is welcome, if unusual, to see so many Heads of State support...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 517 c627 (Link to this contribution) I do not believe that will happen, but what was interesting about this European Council is that ther...

Chris Heaton-Harris | 517 c627 (Link to this contribution) May I say to the Prime Minister how refreshing it was, after 13 years of inactivity and disinterest ...

Chris Bryant | 517 c626 (Link to this contribution) He is not a Head of State.

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 517 c626 (Link to this contribution) I hope the former Europe Minister, the hon. Member for Rhondda (Chris Bryant), will stay calm. My ho...

Kelvin Hopkins | 517 c627 (Link to this contribution) It is clear that a number of member states are unlikely to be able to sustain their membership of th...

Charles Kennedy | 517 c619 (Link to this contribution) Given today's lunchtime praise of the Prime Minister by Miles Templeman of the Institute of Director...

Denis MacShane | 517 c619 (Link to this contribution) May I welcome the Prime Minister to the club of Euro-pragmatism? He has said nothing today with whic...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 517 c619 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his endorsement—wherever they come from, they are always welcom...

Ed Miliband | 517 c616-8 (Link to this contribution) May I thank the Prime Minister for his statement? I also thank him for the briefing statement that h...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 517 c613-5 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr Speaker, I should like to make a statement. Clearly the whole country has been ...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 517 c619 (Link to this contribution) If there were any prospect of a passage of power from Britain to Brussels, we should have a referend...

Peter Tapsell | 517 c619 (Link to this contribution) As it appears that the treaties of the European Union can be changed on the insistence of a German C...

Speaker | 517 c618 (Link to this contribution) Order. A great many Members wish to catch my eye, and there is another important statement to follow...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 517 c618 (Link to this contribution) If mine was chutzpah, that was brass neck. The right hon. Gentleman asked how I was getting on with...

Lord Haselhurst | 517 c622-3 (Link to this contribution) Instead of the passing satisfaction that might be gained from a ““toys out of pram”” approach, is no...

Tony Lloyd | 517 c622 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister, of course, will not have been able to see the faces of his colleagues behind him...

Edward Leigh | 517 c622 (Link to this contribution) What sort of world are MEPs living in? At a time when everybody else is tightening their belts, thes...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 517 c622 (Link to this contribution) We did not have detailed conversations about the elements of the budget. Clearly those countries tha...

Hywel Williams | 517 c622 (Link to this contribution) What discussions did the Prime Minister have with the Council on convergence funding and what are th...

Richard Ottaway | 517 c621 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Prime Minister on playing a very difficult hand at the summit. Does he agree that...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 517 c621 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman, who is very experienced in this House, has clearly not met my right hon. Friend ...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 517 c621 (Link to this contribution) This is a very serious point and we probably require a longer exchange than is possible from the Dis...

Mike Gapes | 517 c621 (Link to this contribution) May I congratulate the Prime Minister on his consistency? In 2005, he won the leadership of his part...

Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 517 c620 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister seems to have great faith in protocol 15. I also noted that he did not really ans...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 517 c620 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. and learned Friend is absolutely right. Every percentage increase we save is equivalen...

William Cash | 517 c620-1 (Link to this contribution) Given that response, will the Prime Minister confirm that the presidency conclusions, to which he ha...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 517 c620 (Link to this contribution) One of the many contributions to public life that my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Ru...

Lord Dodds of Duncairn | 517 c620 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister says that from now on the EU budget must reflect what we are doing in our own cou...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 517 c619-20 (Link to this contribution) Said without a hint of mischief. I believe the national interest right now is all about—[Interruptio...

Malcolm Rifkind | 517 c620 (Link to this contribution) Does the Prime Minister agree that the experience of the Labour Government in respect of the Europea...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 517 c620 (Link to this contribution) What I can say to the right hon. Gentleman is that, for the first time, the European Council's concl...

Philip Hollobone | 517 c630 (Link to this contribution) The cost of the new European diplomatic corps will eat up on its own the entire net contribution fro...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 517 c630-1 (Link to this contribution) I know that my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary has had this conversation, and I have discuss...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 517 c630 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a very good point. Prime Ministers and Ministers often praise the security serv...

Alec Shelbrooke | 517 c629 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Prime Minister on once again showing real leadership in Europe. Drawing on the co...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 517 c625 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. In the negotiations in 2005, we were told repeatedly in the Hous...

Graham Stringer | 517 c623 (Link to this contribution) Local democracy in this country is facing 28% cuts over the next four years. That would be a good st...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 517 c622 (Link to this contribution) That is an idea of pure genius. I am not sure that even the brilliant simultaneous translation that ...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 517 c621-2 (Link to this contribution) May I thank my hon. Friend? I do think this principle that what happens in terms of the EU budget sh...

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European Union European Parliament International cooperation Economic situation EU budget EU reform International Monetary Fund Terrorism European Council G20

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