MPs debate human rights and policing protests
5 February 2010 (updated on 22 April 2010)
Andrew Dismore MP, chairman of the Joint Committee on Human Rights, opened a Westminster Hall debate on the Committee's reports on the human rights approach to policing protest, and the Government's responses. Meg Hillier, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, responded
- Video and Audio: Debate: Human Rights
- Commons Hansard: Debate: Human Rights
- Joint Committee on Human Rights
- Report: Demonstrating respect for rights? A human rights approach to policing protest
- Government response to Report: Demonstrating respect for rights? A human rights approach to policing protest (PDF)
- Report: Demonstrating respect for rights? Follow-up
- Government response to Report: Demonstrating respect for rights? Follow-up
- About Parliament: Adjournment debates
- Topical Issues: Human rights
Westminster Hall
Westminster Hall adjournment debates allow MPs to consider issues of local or personal interest which rarely have time to be debated in the main Chamber of the House of Commons. MPs can discuss a variety of issues and receive a response from a government Minister.
On Thursdays, the sitting consists of a single debate, either on a topic chosen by the Government or - as on this occasion - on reports from a select committee and the Government's responses.