John Redwood – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Cabinet Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by John Redwood on 2016-06-20.

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which EU (a) legislative and (b) other proposals his Department is leading negotiations on for the Government in the Council of the EU.

Matthew Hancock

Cabinet Office Ministers are responsible for four EU proposals being negotiated in the Council of Ministers. They are:

* Proposal for a Council Decision adopting the provisions amending the Act concerning the election of the members of the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage

* Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the accessibility of public sector bodies’ websites.

* Proposal for a Regulation of the EP and Council amending Regulation (EC) No 471/2009 on Community statistics relating to external trade with non-member countries as regards conferring of delegated and implementing powers upon the Commission for the adoption of certain measures.

* Proposal for a Regulation of the EP and Council on the provision and quality of statistics for the macroeconomic imbalances procedure