Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Ministry of Justice

Oral Answers to Questions

Ed Davey Excerpts
Tuesday 5th December 2017

(6 years, 3 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Dominic Raab Portrait Dominic Raab
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May I gently suggest that the hon. Gentleman does not engage in such scaremongering? I have been talking to practitioners, legal groups and the judiciary. We have set out our plans in our position paper, and I would have thought that he would welcome that. Through the EU (Withdrawal) Bill, which I hope he will support, we will make sure that we have a smooth legal transition.

Ed Davey Portrait Sir Edward Davey (Kingston and Surbiton) (LD)
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Will the Minister confirm to the House that it is his policy that the European Court of Human Rights will still have jurisdiction over Britain after we leave the EU?

Dominic Raab Portrait Dominic Raab
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The right hon. Gentleman will know, because it was in our manifesto and it has been repeated since, that we have no plans to withdraw from the European convention on human rights or the Strasbourg Court.