Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Statement by Lord Bates on 19 January (HLWS1308) concerning the Economic and Financial Affairs Council meeting of 12 February, what position was taken by the UK during the exchange of views on the European Commission’s proposal to move to qualified majority voting in EU taxation policy.

As set out in an explanatory memorandum dated 5 February 2019,^[1] the government does not support the use of qualified majority voting (QMV) in the field of taxation and this remains the case following the recent Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) discussion.

[1] http://europeanmemoranda.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/files/2019/02/Scan.pdf