To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to his oral answer of 20 January 1999, Official Report, columns 907–08, on what basis he stated that half the Tory Group in Europe voted with his party in the censure vote on the European Commission in the European Parliament. [67902]

[holding answer 26 January 1999]: On the basis that over half of the European People's Party (the group with which the Conservatives associate themselves) in the European Parliament voted with the Socialist Group against the motion of censure on 14 January.