Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 26 February 1992.
Mrs Ray Michie
, Argyll and Bute
12:00,
26 February 1992
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland when he last met representatives of the European Commission to discuss Scotland's role in Europe.
Secretary of State was originally the title given to the two officials who conducted the Royal Correspondence under Elizabeth I. Now it is the title held by some of the more important Government Ministers, for example the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
The European Commission is the politically independent institution that represents and upholds the interests of the EU as a whole. It is the driving force within the EU’s institutional system: it proposes legislation, policies and programmes of action and it is responsible for implementing the decisions of Parliament and the Council.
Like the Parliament and Council, the European Commission was set up in the 1950s under the EU’s founding treaties.
