Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands: Right of Individual Petition

HL Deb 19 April 1995 vol 563 cc51-2WA

Lord Lester of Herne Hill

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Further to the Written Answers of the Baroness Chalker of Wallasey, 1 March (WA 97), 20 March (WA 55) and 5 April (WA 18), when and in what manner the decision not to renew the acceptance of the right of individual petition in respect of the British Virgin Islands and the Cayman Islands under Article 25 of the European Convention on Human Rights was notified to the UN Human Rights Committee.

Lord Inglewood

The fact that the British Virgin Islands and the Cayman Islands had decided not to renew their acceptance of the right of individual petition under Article 25 of the European Convention on Human Rights was brought to the attention of the Human Rights Committee in the course of the presentation to the Committee of the United Kingdom's third periodic report under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.