§ Lord Lester of Herne Hillasked Her Majesty's Government:
Further to the Written Answer by Baroness Scotland of Asthal on 16 January (WA 125), when they will be in a position to extend to the self-governing Overseas Territories Protocol 6 to the European Covention on Human Rights concerning the abolition of the death penalty. [HL526]
§ The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Baroness Scotland of Asthal)The Government expect to be in a position to extend the Sixth Protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights to the Overseas Territories when capital punishment has been abolished in Gibraltar for piracy and in the Turks and Caicos Islands for treason and piracy. The Government are pursuing this question with the authorities of those territories with a view to reaching conclusions as soon as possible.