Speeches

Rebecca Harris – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Rebecca Harris on 2015-11-18.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the progress of negotiations to reform the EU and the UK’s relationship with the EU.

Mr David Lidington

The Prime Minister, my right hon. Friend the Member for Witney (Mr Cameron) has set out substantial reforms in four key areas to fix the problems in the UK’s relationship with the EU. Technical talks have been ongoing since July. The Prime Minister updated leaders at the October European Council and wrote to President Tusk on 10 November. Leaders will return to the issue at the December European Council.