Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Ministry of Justice

Oral Answers to Questions

David T C Davies Excerpts
Tuesday 3rd November 2015

(9 years ago)

Commons Chamber
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Dominic Raab Portrait Mr Raab
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I give the hon. and learned Lady my personal undertaking to talk to her and any other colleagues, as she wishes, when the time comes for publication.

David T C Davies Portrait David T. C. Davies (Monmouth) (Con)
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Does the Minister agree that any successor to the Human Rights Act should ensure that no compensation is paid in future to foreign nationals who move into foreign war zones and are then imprisoned by foreign countries? The British taxpayer should not be responsible for what takes place.

Dominic Raab Portrait Mr Raab
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My hon. Friend, too, tenaciously raises these issues of extraterritorial jurisdiction and remedies for cases where people have behaved in an unsavoury or nefarious way. We will have full opportunity to look at all those issues in detail during the consultation.