Common European Asylum System

Part of Points of Order – in the House of Commons at 3:10 pm on 29 November 2007.

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Photo of David Heathcoat-Amory David Heathcoat-Amory Conservative, Wells 3:10, 29 November 2007

My hon. Friend is making an important speech and his words will be studied. He has already said that we have contracted into 40 or so directives that restrict our freedom of action. Is there not a conflict between that and the amendment, which says that such powers

"should remain under the control of the British Government"?

I should therefore like to ask my hon. Friend whether he thinks the directives that we have opted into are reversible and whether we should reverse those opt-ins where necessary, in order to regain the national powers that the amendment so rightly asserts we should regain.