Brexit Transition: European Parliament Membership Debate
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Lord Hannay of Chiswick
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Brexit Transition: European Parliament Membership
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Lord Callanan
The details of the membership of that committee are still to be resolved.
Lord Hannay of Chiswick (CB)
My Lords, will the Minister perhaps go a little beyond his very selective quotation from Article 50, because he invariably takes out the reference in it to the possibility of prolonging the period of two years? I know that is not government policy, but the Government appear to be doing contingency planning on a lot of eventualities. What contingency planning are they doing about the membership of the European Parliament, if a decision were taken by unanimity to extend the period of two years?
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.