European Convention on Human Rights: Scotland

(asked on 11th January 2017) - View Source

Question to the Scotland Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what recent assessment he has made of the effect of the UK's signatory status to the European Convention on Human Rights on the competencies of the Scottish Parliament.


Answered by
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David Mundell
This question was answered on 18th January 2017

Section 29 of the Scotland Act 1998 sets out that the Scottish Parliament cannot legislate incompatibly with any of the rights in the European Convention on Human Rights. There are no plans to withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights.

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