Transparency of EU Council decision making

Inquiry by the European Scrutiny Committee, 9 March 2016 to 28 April 2017. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

• 2nd Report - Transparency of decision-making in the Council of the European Union (26 May 2016)
• 1st Special Report - Transparency of decision-making in the Council of the European Union: Government Response to the Committee’s Second Report (14 February 2017)

Evidence sessions

• 20 April 2016: Professor Simon Hix, Harold Laski Professor of Political Science, and Dr Sara Hagemann, Assistant Professor, European Institute, London School of Economics; Rt Hon Sir Edward Davey, and Rt Hon Owen Paterson MP (at 2.55pm).
• 27 April 2016: Andrew Lebrecht, Former UK Deputy Permanent Representative to the EU (2008-2012), and Anne Lambert, Former UK Deputy Permanent Representative to the EU (2003-2008)
• 4 May 2016: Rt Hon Dame Margaret Beckett MP