European Affairs Committee
9 June 2026
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European Affairs Committee House of Lords
00:03 - 00:45
Speaker 2
Good morning and welcome to this session of the House of Lords Select Committee on European Affairs where we continue our inquiry into the issue of dynamic alignment, focusing today particularly on the issue of parliamentary scrutiny. For our first session, we're delighted to welcome as witnesses Dr Ruth Fox, who is director of the Hansard Society, Matthew England, who is a researcher for the Hansard Society, and joining us online Professor Holger Hestermeyer, Professor of International Law and EU Law and Head of Department of International Law and EU Law, the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna. Welcome to you all, it's a great pleasure to see you and we're very grateful to you for giving us so much of your valuable time.
00:45 - 00:53
Speaker 1
Chairman, can I just interrupt with, I don't think the loop is on for hearing aids.
00:53 - 01:53
Speaker 2
It should be. Can we work on that in a little while? The, this is a public session, it's being broadcast, there will be a transcript provided, it will be sent to you in draft for the correction of any errors and omissions you may notice. And we're aiming to get this session done by 12 o'clock, so we need to be as succinct as we can be with the questions and the answers, and very helpfully that Dr Fox and Matthew England have divided up the Hansard Society responses between them. So that will be an enormous help.
Thank you very much for that. Perhaps I can get us started then with a general question to all of you, and I'll ask Professor Hestermeyer to respond first. How important is it, if at all, that the prospective dynamic alignment arrangements with the EU are subject to the scrutiny procedure under the CRAG Act as it currently stands? Professor.
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