Brexit Transition: European Parliament Membership Debate
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Baroness McIntosh of Pickering
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Brexit Transition: European Parliament Membership
Baroness McIntosh of Pickering Excerpts(6 years, 6 months ago)
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Lord Callanan
We are not doing any contingency planning on it because we are not going to apply for an extension. An extension is not going to be granted because, as I have said on at least three different occasions today, we are leaving on 30 March 2019.
Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Con)
Does my noble friend agree, pursuant to the question of the noble Baroness, Lady Hayter, that there would be some merit in allocating observer status to existing Members of the European Parliament, or a number of them, for the very good reasons that my noble friend gave in his question? We should have some democratic representation in the European Parliament at that stage.
Lord Callanan
Whether that would be a good idea or not, it would have to be agreed with the European Parliament and as we will no longer be a member state, I cannot see that Parliament being happy about the prospect of a non-member state sending representatives to it.