asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if there are any plans within the European Economic Community to harmonise approaches to the need for and the issuing of visas to other countries.

The report of the People's Europe Committee to the European Council in March 1985 called for work to be put in hand on the definition and gradual application of a common visa policy. The matter is also referred to in the Commission's White Paper on the internal market and is now under discussion.