Human Rights (Joint Committee)

Melanie Onn Excerpts

Wednesday 21st October 2015 Commons Chamber

[Melanie Onn (Great Grimsby) (Lab)]

I wish to state how important this Committee is. At a time when this Government are thinking of reviewing the Human Rights Act 1998 as early as November, with no Green Paper or White Paper, the imperative must be to set up this Committee to examine the matter of human rights and the most fundamental Act protecting humans and their rights in this country and in Europe. This is a crucial time for the House to have a Select Committee on a major constitutional issue. If there are changes to be made to its make-up further down the line, so be it, but there should be no delay in establishing this very important Select Committee.

[Patrick Grady (Glasgow North) (SNP)]

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