Representation of the People Acts (Hansard, 13 January 1997)

§ Mr. Rooker
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the occasions on which the operation of the Representation of the People Acts has been found to be in breach of the European convention on human rights. [10768]

§ Mr. Sackville
The United Kingdom is currently challenging in the European Court of Human Rights a decision of the European Commission of Human Rights last year on an application brought by Mrs. Phyllis Bowman, executive director of the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child, on the operation of section 75 of the Representation of the People Act 1983.
There are no other instances.

§ Mr. Rooker
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans he has to bring forward amendments to the Representation of the People Acts in respect of material issued about a candidate without his or her permission following the recent ruling of the European Commission of human rights. [10769]

§ Mr. Sackville
There are no plans to do so at this time.