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Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Defence – in the House of Commons at 4:17 pm on 26 November 2012.

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Photo of David Cameron David Cameron The Prime Minister, Leader of the Conservative Party 4:17, 26 November 2012

I am afraid that the answer to that is not nearly enough. There is some good news, which is that, at the last European Council before this one, we secured a commitment from the European Commission to examine existing regulations and to try to remove the most burdensome of them. It was disappointing, however, that at this Council, the European Commission would not brook any idea of reducing its bureaucracy or its budget. As I have said, the proposals being put forward were to increase the budget of the central administration, not to reduce it.