Bills not requiring to be brought to the
attention of either House on human rights grounds
2.1 In view of the limited amount of parliamentary
time available for legislative scrutiny before the end of this
session, the fact that a number of bills may not complete their
passage during this session, and the need to complete our other
work, we have applied a higher significance threshold than usual
to enable us to focus on the most significant human rights issues
raised by Government Bills.
2.2 We consider that the following Government bills
either do not raise any human rights issues or, applying the higher
threshold, do not raise human rights issues of sufficient significance
to warrant us undertaking further scrutiny of them:
- Bribery Bill[8]
- Cluster Munitions Prohibitions
Bill[9]
- Consolidated Fund Bill
- Corporation Tax Bill[10]
- Fiscal Responsibility Bill
- Flood and Water Management
Bill
- Northern Ireland Assembly Bill
- Taxation (International and
other provisions) Bill[11]
- Third Parties (Rights Against
Insurers) Bill
8 This is a significant human rights enhancing measure
which we welcome as such. Back
9
This is also a significant human rights enhancing measure which
we welcome. We are grateful to the FCO for the human rights memorandum
it provided to us, which assisted us greatly in our initial scrutiny
of this Bill: see page 16. Back
10
A Tax Law Rewrite Bill. The Committee's approach is not to scrutinise
such Bills unless a human rights issue is drawn to its attention. Back
11
Also a Tax Law Rewrite Bill. Back
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