§ Mr. Fortescueasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many individual petitions from residents in the United Kingdom have been presented to the European Commission on Human Rights under Article 25.
§ Mr. MulleyUp to the end of last year 148 petitions had been presented to the European Commission of Human Rights since Her Majesty's Government accepted the right of individual petition 23W under Article 25 of the European Convention on Human Rights. Only 30 petitions under Article 25 have been referred by the Commission to Her Majesty's Government for observations. We have filed our observations on 16 of these petitions; only one of them has as a result been declared admissible by the Commission.