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Gibraltar

Volume 324: debated on Tuesday 26 January 1999

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To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will seek to amend annexe II of the 1976 legislative measure of the EEC on Direct Elections to extend the franchise to the people of Gibraltar for elections to the European Parliament. [67396]

We have no plans to seek to amend annexe II of the 1976 EC Act. Amendment would require the agreement of all Member States. In present circumstances there is no prospect of securing this.