Asked by: Michael Gove (Conservative - Surrey Heath)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the Government plans to ratify the Lanzarote Convention.
Answered by Sarah Newton
The Government takes its international commitments very seriously and will only commit to formal ratification when it is satisfied that it is in a position to do so
Officials are finalising assessments of what needs to be done under domestic legislation and practical arrangements, before the whole of the UK can be assessed to be in a position to ratify the Convention.