Dear Editor,
Dr D R Cooper accuses me of ignorence when I revealed that only 9% of UK legislation comes from the EU but this is a statistic provided by the politically neutral House of Commons Library.
Further evidence of this is that only three out of the 32 pieces of legislation in the current Queen's speech arise from agreements we reached at EU level.
In some areas, like the environment and trade, a far higher percentage of legislation is agreed and dealt with at European level (reflecting the transnational nature of the subjects), but in other areas like health, education and defence there is virtually none at all, which explains the low figure many, including Dr R Cooper are so surprised by!
Yours,
Richard Corbett
Labour MEP for Yorkshire & Humber
Blenheim Terrace, Leeds
|