EU documents and correspondence

Documents and Letters

The Government sends EMs and correspondence to the Committee for consideration.  The Committee scrutinises them and reports its conclusions to the House.  Documents which the Committee judges to be politically and/or legally important are the subject of a Report Chapter; others are listed at the back of the Report.

• Read the Committee's Reports

In the head note of each chapter, the Committee cites the European Council number of the document under consideration and the letter or EM that forms the basis of scrutiny. The European Council number takes the following format: 12345/14

Where to find them

Once EMs and letters have been deposited in Parliament, they are considered public documents and can be accessed through the Cabinet Office European Memoranda website.  To search for a record for which you know the Council number choose "search by reference number" and type in the European Council number: 

• Read documents and letters

Other letters

The Committee may choose not to respond to the Government in the form of a report chapter.  It might, instead, choose to write directly to the relevant Minister in which case the letters are published on our website under Ministerial Correspondence.

• Read Ministerial Correspondence