Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they have any plans to leave the European Convention on Human Rights or to amend its application to British law.

This Government is committed to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and has no plans to leave it.

However, commitment does not mean complacency. The UK played a leading role in negotiations on the Chișinău Declaration which set out a European consensus on the need for the ECHR to modernise in response to significant, complex migration-related challenges. As this process has demonstrated, the UK does not need to leave in order to deliver reform.

The Human Rights Act gives further effect in UK law to the rights and freedoms contained in the ECHR: it is an important part of our constitutional arrangements and fundamental to human rights protections in the UK. It will remain part of our law.