Economic And Finance Council

Sir Michael Spicer
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to his oral answer of 23 April 1998, Official Report, columns 953–55, if there was informal discussion about the Maastricht criteria at the Ecofin Conference in York. [40084]

Mrs. Liddell
The convergence criteria of the Maastricht Treaty were not discussed in the ECOFIN meeting at York.