HC Deb 30 January 1957 vol 563 cc182-3W
Mr. Willey

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what action Her Majesty's Government are taking regarding the Conventions of the Council of Europe on establishment and on the exchange of war cripples for purposes of medical treatment, respectively.

Mr. Ian Harvey

Her Majesty's Government deposited their instrument of ratification of the Council of Europe Convention on the exchange of war cripples for purposes of medical treatment on 13th July, 1956. Her Majesty's Government have not yet ratified the Council of Europe Establishment Convention. The text was laid before the House on 10th January as Command 41.

Mr. Willey

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what is the policy of Her Majesty's Government with respect to the implementation of the claims concerning the right of individual petition and the jurisdiction of the court in the Convention of the Council of Europe on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.

Mr. Ian Harvey

Her Majesty's Government do not propose to make the optional declaration provided for in Article 25 of the European Human Rights Convention concerning the competence of the European Human Rights Commission to receive individual petitions. Nor do Her Majesty's Government propose to make a declaration under Article 46 of the Convention accepting the compulsory jurisdiction of the proposed European Court of Human Rights.