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European Convention on Human Rights: Scotland

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Question for Scotland Office

UIN 59504, tabled on 11 January 2017

Question

Dr Paul Monaghan
Scottish National Party
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what recent assessment he has made of the effect of the UK's signatory status to the European Convention on Human Rights on the competencies of the Scottish Parliament.

Answer

David Mundell
Conservative
Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale
Commons

Answered on

18 January 2017

Section 29 of the Scotland Act 1998 sets out that the Scottish Parliament cannot legislate incompatibly with any of the rights in the European Convention on Human Rights. There are no plans to withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights.

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Scotland Office