§ Baroness Davidasked Her Majesty's Government:
When they are due to meet the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child in Geneva to discuss the United Kingdom's initial report under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and whether their delegation will include (a) ministers and (b) officials, and if so, from which department and of what rank they will be.
§ The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Health (Baroness Cumberlege)January 1995. In accordance with normal practice the delegation will comprise officials, but the composition is not yet decided.
§ Baroness Davidasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child asked for further information following the submission of the United Kingdom's initial report under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, and if so, what information has been requested and whether their responses will be published.
§ Baroness CumberlegeAt this stage the further information requested by the Committee on the Rights of the Child and the responses are a matter for the committee and the United Kingdom Government. No decision has therefore been taken as to what, if anything, might be published.