EU Withdrawal Joint Committee: Oversight Debate
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Stephen Gethins
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EU Withdrawal Joint Committee: Oversight
Stephen Gethins Excerpts(5 years, 10 months ago)
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Kwasi Kwarteng
The scope, the rules, the jurisdiction, if you like, and the powers of the Joint Committee are very ably set out in the withdrawal agreement. I suggest that my hon. Friend peruses those once again.
Stephen Gethins (North East Fife) (SNP)
I thank the right hon. Member for Rayleigh and Wickford (Mr Francois) for securing the question and for the concern that he shows for unelected bureaucrats because, of course, we sit in a Parliament where more than half of parliamentarians are unelected bureaucrats. Will the Minister possibly tell us what role the fully elected European Parliament will play in this Committee?
Kwasi Kwarteng
It is obviously up to them to decide how they would conduct matters with respect to their delegates in the Joint Committee.