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48718

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date	28/04/2014
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, whether he has given advice to the Government on whether the removal of President Yanukovich was in accord with the provisions of Article III of the Constitution of Ukraine.
tabling member constituency	Gainsborough
tabling member printed	Sir Edward Leigh
uin	196900
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2014 answer text <p>By long-standing convention, observed by successive administrations and embodied in the Ministerial Code, the fact that the Law Officers 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.</p> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Oliver Heald question first answered 30/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
tabling member	345 label Biography information for Sir Edward Leigh

48820

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date	28/04/2014
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he has received advice on the legality of the removal from power of President Yanukovich, pursuant to Article 111 of the Constitution of Ukraine.
tabling member constituency	Gainsborough
tabling member printed	Sir Edward Leigh
uin	196901
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2014 answer text <p>The Government is not in a position to comment on the legal system in Ukraine. On 21 February, agreement was reached between the then opposition leaders and the then President, Viktor Yanukovych to resolve the political crisis afflicting Ukraine by: signing a new law within 48 hours to reinstate the 2004 Constitution; holding pre-term presidential elections in 2014; and conducting a comprehensive constitutional reform. However, later that day Yanukovych fled Kyiv, abandoning his office as Head of State and was therefore not in a position to fulfill the obligation he undertook to sign the law reinstating the 2004 constitution.</p><p>As the Ukrainian Government had already been dissolved by Yanukovych, Parliament was the only legitimate state body remaining. In view of Yanukovych's action to effectively remove himself from office, Parliament approved a bill to remove Yanukovych from power, appoint an acting president and, in line with the constitution, to hold presidential elections within 90 days. The bill was approved by an overwhelming majority, including by representatives of Yanukovych's Party of the Regions which remains the largest faction in the Rada.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 02/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	345 label Biography information for Sir Edward Leigh

44357

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date	18/03/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has to reform faith-based admissions to free schools.
tabling member constituency	Gainsborough
tabling member printed	Sir Edward Leigh
uin	903211
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2014 answer text <p>Faith designated free schools can use faith as a criterion for admitting up to 50% of their pupils, when oversubscribed. I have no plans to change this rule.</p> answering member constituency Surrey Heath answering member printed Michael Gove question first answered 14/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1571 label Biography information for Michael Gove
tabling member	345 label Biography information for Sir Edward Leigh