Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 2:27 pm on 15 June 2005.
I must have left my notes lying in the Tea Room because I intended to cover that later in my speech.
I have long argued for reform in our own procedures for scrutinising all matters European in this House. I must accept that this Government, more than any other before them, have done more to improve our scrutiny procedures in this House, but—this is a good wee phrase that I have heard before—we have done a lot but have a lot more to do. One of the first actions of our Government should have been to set up the Select Committees a lot more quickly. That is very important.
Angus Robertson mentioned some statistics. Since the European Scrutiny Committee met on