Treaty on the Functioning of the EU Debate

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Treaty on the Functioning of the EU

Henry Smith Excerpts
Tuesday 9th July 2013

(11 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Baroness May of Maidenhead Portrait Mrs May
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The Government have made a very clear decision that we will opt out from these measures and seek to rejoin a number of them, the list of which is with the Command Paper that I have published today. Yes, we will have to go into negotiations with not only the European Commission but with other member states. I believe that other member states are keen to see the United Kingdom as a part of certain of the measures that we are proposing to rejoin, but we will be entering those negotiations over the coming months.

Henry Smith Portrait Henry Smith (Crawley) (Con)
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May I seek assurances from my right hon. Friend that the United Kingdom will not opt into any Eurojust measures that would lead to a European public prosecutor having competence in this country?

Baroness May of Maidenhead Portrait Mrs May
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I am very happy to give my hon. Friend that assurance. Indeed, our original coalition agreement states that we would not be a part of measures that led to a European public prosecutor.