Naomi Long – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Naomi Long on 2014-03-18.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress she has made regarding the 2014 opt-out pursuant to Article 10(4) of Protocol 36 of the Lisbon Treaty; and what timetable she has set for the UK opting back in to the measures to which that decision relates.

Karen Bradley

On 24 July 2013 the Prime Minister wrote to the President of the Council of Ministers exercising the UK’s opt-out from all police and criminal justice measures agreed before the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty.

The Government has also announced 35 measures that it will seek to rejoin in the national interest. These are contained in Command Paper 8671

(https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/235912/8671.pdf).