CORRESPONDENCE WITH MINISTERS
1. As part of our scrutiny of the European Union
and of documents deposited, our Sub-Committees prepare letters
to Ministers to express views on documents under scrutiny and
on other matters of policy. The procedure of sending a letter
may be adopted for a number of reasons, including that the timetable
of the Council of Ministers precludes the Committee making a report,
or that the points at issue do not warrant a full report, or to
follow-up a previous report.
2. We publish volumes of such correspondence,
including Ministerial replies and other material where appropriate[1].
This volume covers the period from November 2007 to April 2008
and includes the text of letters sent[2]
and received together with any supporting material. This volume
includes not only an index of contents but also a list of documents
by Council document numbers, where one is given.
1 The previous volume of Correspondence with Ministers
was published as the 11th Report, Session 2008-2009 (HL Paper
92).
2
All letters are signed and sent by the Chairman of the Select
Committee, regardless of which Sub-Committee has prepared them.
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