Recommendations by GREVIO and the Committee of the Parties

Part of Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence (Ratification of Convention) Bill – in the House of Commons at 10:00 am on 24 February 2017.

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Photo of Jacob Rees-Mogg Jacob Rees-Mogg Conservative, North East Somerset 10:00, 24 February 2017

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way with regard to his new clause 10, but I wonder whether he has thought through the constitutional implications of allowing a vote in this House to have any formal standing when it is neither a statutory instrument nor primary legislation. Would that not risk bringing the courts into the proceedings in Parliament?