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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 26 Apr 2016
European Convention on Human Rights: UK Membership

"Originally proposed by Winston Churchill and drafted mainly by British lawyers, the European convention on human rights is an important part of our post-war history—it is, in essence, a British Bill of Rights. How are the public to trust the Government to ensure that the hard-won advances on equality, privacy …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 14 Apr 2016
Oral Answers to Questions

"12. What discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions on the effect on equality for disabled people of the Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 14 Apr 2016
Oral Answers to Questions

"A Lords Select Committee report published last month said that the Government had hurt disabled people disproportionately through inaction on the provisions of the Equality Act 2010, through spending cuts and cuts to legal aid, and through removing protections with their red tape challenge. Will the Government apologise for their …..."
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Written Question
Human Rights
Tuesday 20th October 2015

Asked by: Margaret Ferrier (Independent - Rutherglen and Hamilton West)

Question to the Attorney General:

To ask the Attorney General, what recent discussions he has had with his Cabinet colleagues on the implementation of the UK's domestic and international legal obligations on human rights.

Answered by Jeremy Wright

By long-standing convention, observed by successive administrations and embodied in the Ministerial Code, the fact that I may or may not have advised or have been requested to advise on a particular issue, and the content of any advice, is not disclosed outside Government.