Asked by: Angela Crawley (Scottish National Party - Lanark and Hamilton East)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
What steps he has taken to help ensure that the UK upholds its obligations under international treaties on human rights.
Answered by Chris Philp - Shadow Home Secretary
The UK has strong human rights protections within a comprehensive and well-established constitutional and legal system, and a longstanding tradition of ensuring rights and liberties are protected domestically and of fulfilling our international human rights obligations.
The UK has put in place a combination of policies and legislation to give effect to the international human rights treaties that it has ratified. The UK has a strong record before the various UN treaty monitoring bodies and fully participates in relevant reporting processes.
Asked by: Angela Crawley (Scottish National Party - Lanark and Hamilton East)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
What recent discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on upholding the rule of law.
Answered by Alex Chalk
Naturally, the Government does not disclose the details of private conversations that are had amongst Cabinet colleagues, but there should be no doubt that the Government will continue to be very active in supporting the rule of law.