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Legislative Scruting: Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill  9th Report of Session 2008-09
In this report, we welcome the introduction of the new positive duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children in the discharge of immigration, asylum, nationality and customs functions. This is a human rights enhancing measure which is a long overdue reversal of the Government’s previous policy, which excluded children subject to immigration control from the protection of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
We will be looking carefully for evidence that this welcome change in …

Asked by Lord Lester of Herne Hill
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether, in deciding how to abide by the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in Hirst v United Kingdom, they will have regard to (a) the reasoning in the judgment of 8 December 2008 of Judge Andrew Cheung in the Court of First Instance of Hong Kong in Chan Kin Sum deciding that a blanket ban on prisoners’ voting is unconstitutional; and (b) the Government of Hong Kong’s response. [HL785]
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary …

12 January 2009
House of Lords
Asked by Lord Laird
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have ratified the Fourth Protocol to the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms; whether they intend to incorporate Article 1 of the Protocol (prohibition of imprisonment for debt); whether persons may be imprisoned in the United Kingdom for not fulfilling contractual obligations; and whether that Article has implications for the law of contempt of court and the powers of judges. [HL349]
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Justice (Lord Bach):
In response …