Employment: Human Rights

(asked on 2nd November 2021) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the Written Statement of 23 February 2021, State Immunity Act 1978: Remedial Order, HCWS788, when she plans to lay before Parliament a draft remedial order in response to the Supreme Court judgement in the case of Benkharbouche v Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs [2017] UKSC 62.


Answered by
Amanda Milling Portrait
Amanda Milling
Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury
This question was answered on 11th November 2021

The FCDO has been extensively engaged in preparing to respond to the Supreme Court's ruling. Work is not yet complete, but we plan to lay a draft remedial order before Parliament as early as possible in 2022.

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