Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission: Recommendations

HL Deb 08 February 2001 vol 621 cc118-9WA

Lord Laird

asked Her Majesty's Government:

What recommendations the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission has made to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland in accordance with Sections 69(2) of the Northern Ireland Act 1998. [HL507]

Lord Falconer of Thoroton

To date no recommendations have been made to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland by the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission with regard to Section 69(2) of the Northern Ireland Act 1998. We expect to receive its recommendations within the specified timescale of two years since the commission's establishment in March 1999.