To ask Her Majesty's Government whether, in the light of the reported remarks by Mr Van Rompuy on 28 February that there was no impending need to re-open the European Union treaties and not "much appetite for it around the leaders' table", they have any plans to reassess their commitment to securing a new settlement for the United Kingdom in Europe.

The Government will continue to seek outcomes that are in the UK national interest when negotiating with EU partners. This would include any future discussions on changes to the EU treaties. Not all reforms to the EU require changes to the EU treaties; the reforms to the Common Fisheries Policy currently being negotiated are a case in point.

A number of the more ambitious proposals put forward by other relevant parties would require treaty change, such as some of those in the "Four Presidents" report and in the President of the Commission's most recent State of the Union address.