Human Rights and the Government’s response to COVID-19: The detention of young people who are autistic and/or have learning disabilities Contents

Formal minutes

Wednesday 8 June 2020

Virtual Meeting

Members present:

Ms Harriet Harman MP, in the Chair

Ms Karen Buck MP

Dean Russell MP

Lord Brabazon of Tara

Lord Dubs

Baroness Massey of Darwen

Draft Report (Human Rights and the Government’s response to COVID-19: The detention of young people who are autistic and/or have learning disabilities), proposed by the Chair, brought up and read.

Ordered, That the Chair’s draft Report be read a second time, paragraph by paragraph.

Paragraphs 1 to 48 read and agreed to.

Summary agreed to.

Resolved, That the Report be the Fifth Report of the Committee to both Houses.

Ordered, That the Chair make the Report to the House of Commons and that the Report be made to the House of Lords.

Ordered, That embargoed copies of the Report be made available, in accordance with the provisions of House of Commons Standing Order No. 134.

[Adjourned till 22 June at 2pm.





Published: 12 June 2020