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Macolin Convention

My Honourable Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Indo-Pacific (Seema Malhotra MP) has today made the following statement:

On 6 December 2018, the UK signed the Council of Europe Convention on the Manipulation of Sports Competitions (The Macolin Convention).

The Government laid this Convention in Parliament on 4 June 2026 in the Miscellaneous Series under Command Paper number CP 1595, accompanied by an Explanatory Memorandum.

In accordance with section 21 of the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010 (CRaG), I wish to inform the House that the 21 sitting day period that relates to this Convention pursuant to section 20(1) CRaG is to be extended. The 21 sitting day period is to be extended by 15 sitting days.

This extension follows a request from the House of Lords International Agreements Committee for further time to consider the Convention.