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388689

	registered interest
	date	08/07/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Human Rights
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on which occasions the Supreme Court has declared an incompatibility between domestic legislation and the European Convention on Human Rights under section 4 of the Human Rights Act 1998 since that Court's inception; and what the Government's response was in each such case.
	tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
	tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
	uin	6204
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2015 answer text Since its inception, the Supreme Court has confirmed two declarations of incompatibility under section 4 of the Human Rights Act 1998, both of which had been made previously by the Court of Appeal. These were in the cases of R (F and Thompson) v SSHD (2010) UKSC 17 and T &amp; Anor, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department &amp; Anor [2014] UKSC 35.<p>In the first case, the incompatibility was remedied by the Sexual Offences Act 2003 (Remedial) Order 2012.</p><p> </p><p>In the second case, while the Government’s application to appeal to the Supreme Court was outstanding, changes were made to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 and to the Police Act 1997 by secondary legislation in response to the Court of Appeal’s earlier judgment.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 13/07/2015 14:02:33 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
	tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

388695

	registered interest
	date	08/07/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Press
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 7 July 2015 t Question 5246, to which periodicals and newspapers his Department's office at 102 Petty France, Westminster subscribes; how many copies of each such periodical and newspaper his Department at that address receives each day; and what the cost of subscribing to such newspapers and periodicals sent to this address was in 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Preston
	tabling member printed	Mr Mark Hendrick
	uin	6127
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2015 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally and collecting it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 21/07/2015 16:55:29 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
	tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

388602

	registered interest
	date	08/07/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	European Convention on Human Rights
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the Government's policy is on EU accession to the European Convention of Human Rights.
	tabling member constituency	Christchurch
	tabling member printed	Mr Christopher Chope
	uin	6280
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2015 answer text <p>The European Court of Justice's Opinion 2/13 has serious implications for work on the EU’s accession to the European Convention on Human Rights. We remain concerned that accession risks undermining our domestic human rights arrangements and creating legal uncertainty. We will work to mitigate those risks.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 23/07/2015 13:15:59 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
	tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope