Turkey: EU Accession

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Office – in the House of Commons at 11:30 am on 20 January 2015.

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Photo of David Lidington David Lidington The Minister for Europe 11:30, 20 January 2015

It will be up to this House to decide whether or not to approve a Turkish accession treaty. Of course it will be open to Parliament, if it wanted to do so, to make that subject to a referendum but, in the past, all new accessions to the EU have been dealt with in this country by parliamentary process. The coalition have strengthened that to make sure that there must be an Act of Parliament before any new accessions take place.