§ Mr. SquireTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he proposes to bring before Parliament proposals to amend the law on sexual offences to implement(a) the recommendations of the Policy Advisory Committee (Cmnd. 8216, 1981) and the Criminal Law Revision Committee (Cmnd. 9213, 1984) concerning the age of consent, the definition of privacy and other matters on which the law treats homosexual conduct more harshly than comparable heterosexual conduct and (b) the resolutions passed by large inter-party majorities in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in 1981 and the European Parliament in 1984 calling on those member states with laws discriminating against homosexuals to end such discrimination.
§ Mr. John PattenWe have no present plans to do so.