Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with his EU counterparts about amending article 122 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union to ensure that it cannot be used as a legal basis for Eurozone bailouts.

As part of our wider discussions on reform, the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my right hon.Friend the Member for Runnymede and Weybridge (Mr Hammond), and I have raised our concerns over economic governance with our counterparts, including the need to ensure that countries outside the Eurozone are not held liable for issues within it.