UN Convention for Protection of Cultural Property in Event of Armed Conflict

(asked on 18th June 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government why they have not yet ratified the 1954 Hague Convention on the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict; and when they plan to do so.


Answered by
Baroness Neville-Rolfe Portrait
Baroness Neville-Rolfe
Shadow Minister (Treasury)
This question was answered on 2nd July 2015

The Government has made a commitment to bring forward legislation to ratify the Hague Convention and accede its two protocols at the first opportunity. Previous Governments were unable to find the necessary parliamentary time to do this earlier.

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