Nikki questions Malcolm Harbour on just how much influence the EU's Single Market Committee has

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Nikki Sinclaire MEP: Mr President, I would like to put a question Mr Harbour, who is a fellow MEP for the West Midlands in the UK. He talked a great deal about being in the European Union and the influence this gives; indeed he is the Chair of one of the most influential committees here in the European Parliament -- the Single Market Committee. He is actually the only Conservative MEP who is a committee chair. He recently brought forward a written declaration in support of small businesses, but only got just over 200 signatures. Is that the level of his influence? Or is he just a Europhile in Euro-sceptic clothing in a no meaning ECR group that deceives the British public over and over again?

Malcolm Harbour MEP: Mr President, Mrs Sinclaire and I represent a region of the United Kingdom whose citizens depend on the single market for their jobs and for their future. I work with small enterprises all the time, and I can tell her that small enterprises in the Midlands supplying the great companies in the car industry, just down the road from where she and I live, are working overtime at the moment because of new opportunities that we have created by giving them a framework to go and attack a market numbering 500 million people -- that big an area.

Nikki Sinclaire MEP: Mr President, on a point of order, first of all the rule book states that if a member of this House wishes to make a point of order, the President should give way, and it was a procedural point of order I wished to make.

These blue cards allow a Member to ask another Member a question. Now if the Member disregards that question, I think it is up to you, Mr President, to ask the Member to answer that question.

My question was simple: how did Mr Harbour's influence help with adoption of his written declaration, which failed to get the requisite number of signatures?

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