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Parliamentary Standards Bill

No. I am sorry, but I need to make progress. On the second point, about the jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights, Lord Jenkin of Roding said:""As these"—" ECHR matters—""concern the international obligations of the UK…we could not simply assert our own constitutional arrangements as a conclusive answer."—[Official Report, House of Lords, 20 July 2009; Vol. 712, c. 1419.]" That is absolutely right. Indeed, the hon. and learned Member for Beaconsfield made exactly the same point on an intervention, when he said that such an amendment, even if it were introduced into law, could not be binding or have any impact. That is because both obligations arise in international law, under treaties that we have signed up to.