Forty First Report Contents
Correspondence
Implementation backlog for international agreements
9.The Committee noted a significant increase in the number of treaties or similar international agreements that were coming before it and wrote to ask the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) the reason for the increase and what volume of treaties might be expected over the next few months. We also asked about the FCO’s policy on ratifying treaties, and why a number of treaties we had seen recently were being ratified several years after they had come into effect. The response from Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon clarifies some of the policy issues around ratification but is less specific about the number of EU-related treaties to be expected. The correspondence is published at Appendix 1.