Recruitment Policy

HC Deb 31 October 2000 vol 355 c341W

Dr. Julian Lewis

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how recruitment policy for the armed forces will be affected by the incorporation into UK law of the European Convention on Human Rights. [135159]

Mr. Spellar

The incorporation into UK law of the European Convention on Human Rights on 2 October 2000 will not affect recruitment policy into the armed forces.