HC Deb 18 April 1989 vol 151 cc88-9W
Mr. Squire

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for Hornchurch,Official Report, 1 December 1988, column 396, what response he has had from the Law Officers in Jersey and the Isle of Man in respect of amending their laws on consensual homosexual acts between males.

Mr. Douglas Hogg

The island authorities in Jersey and the Isle of Man have indicated that they have under consideration the question of legislation on this matter in order to enable them to conform with the European convention on human rights.