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Mr. Flynn
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on Her Majesty's Government's current policy towards the remit and powers of the European Parliament.
Mr. Garel-Jones
The treaty on European union agreed at Maastricht includes a package of measures to extend the European Parliament's non-legislative powers, particularly to enable it to monitor the Commission more effectively. We also accepted a new procedure giving the EP a right to block legislation in a number of specified areas. A declaration attached to the treaty calls for closer contacts between the European Parliament and national Parliaments.