HC Deb 05 February 2002 vol 379 c901W
Mr. George Howarth

To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department what assessment he has made of the impact of incorporating the ECHR in the UK domestic judicial system. [32054]

Mr. Wills

We keep the impact of the Human Rights Act on the judicial system under continuous review. An analysis of its impact on the workload of the courts is produced quarterly, and is placed on the human rights part of our website. A breakdown of the cases in which the Human Rights Act has been raised and their outcome is also on the site.

There has been no significant increase in either the length of cases or the number of cases awaiting hearing, attributable to the Human Rights Act, since 2 October 2000.