Home Secretary and Lord Chancellor give evidence

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• Inquiry: Protocol 36 follow-up
• EU Sub-Committee F - Home Affairs, Health and Education

Witnesses

At 1.30pm, Wednesday 9 October, Committee Room 4A, Palace of Westminster:

• Rt Hon Theresa May MP, Home Secretary, Home Office
• Rt Hon Chris Grayling, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, Ministry of Justice

On 9 July, the Government published a list of the 35 measures that the Government would seek to rejoin should the opt-out be exercised and announced a framework for votes in both Houses of Parliament to take place. Following those votes, the two EU Sub-Committees which conducted the original inquiry decided to reopen it to further scrutinise these developments.

The questions that the Home Secretary and Lord Chancellor are likely to face include:

• How did you define “the national interest” in selecting the 35 measures which the UK will seek to rejoin and those it will not?
• Will UK non-participation in some of these measures, for example on xenophobia and racism, not send an unfortunate signal to other Member States that the UK does not regard those issues as important and possibly lead to a loss of influence in those areas? How do you respond to questions raised about the coherence of seeking to rejoin the decision establishing Europol, but not related implementing measures?
• Are you confident that the domestic reforms to the implementation of the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) won’t break the UK’s obligations under the Treaties and the EAW Framework Decision?

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