Proceeding contribution from Baroness Whitaker (Labour) in the House of Lords on Wednesday, 16 June 2010. It occurred during Debate on select committee report on Liaison Committee: First Report.

Liaison Committee: First Report

My Lords, perhaps I may add briefly to the remarks of the noble Lord, Lord Alton, with which I wholeheartedly agree. We have no committee in either House which looks at international instruments, to which this country becomes party. We look at European instruments because they will become our law, and in the same way, I submit, we should look at international instruments. There is a democratic deficit in the fact that we have no such committee.

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Type: Proceeding contribution
Reference: 719 c982
Session: 2010-12
Chamber / Committee: House of Lords chamber
Subjects: House of Lords Foreign policy Select committees National identity
Link: View this Proceeding contribution on www.publications.parliament.uk

Liaison Committee: First Report

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