Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine

(asked on 11th February 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they consider that the principles and prohibitions regarding eugenic practices in the Council of Europe Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine form part of the constitutional traditions common to member states of the European Union.


Answered by
Earl Howe Portrait
Earl Howe
Deputy Leader of the House of Lords
This question was answered on 25th February 2015

The United Kingdom has not signed or ratified the Council of Europe’s Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine.

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