§ Adam PriceTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether the Government recognises the UN Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment. [184829]
§ Mr. RammellThe UK supported the adoption of the Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment by the United Nations in 1988.
The Principles are not specifically embodied in UK domestic legislation. However, they are effectively applied by means of existing legislation and procedures governing the detention of individuals, and by the system of independent checks of places of detention by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Prisons, as well as by the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture.