Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have any plans to re-consider the reply given by the Lord Privy Seal on 27 October to Lord Pearson of Rannoch (HL Deb, col 1010) to the effect that the European Union’s new €300 billion Strategic Agenda for the Union in Times of Change affects only the Eurozone and that the United Kingdom will not have to contribute to it.

I refer the Noble Lord to the letter of 29 October correcting the reply, placed in the Library of the House by the Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords, the right Hon. the Baroness Stowell of Beeston. A copy of the letter is attached for ease of reference.