Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office written statement – made at on 26 March 2024.
Leo Docherty
Minister of State (Ministry of Defence) (Minister for the Armed Forces), Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
The Hon. Member for South Derbyshire (Heather Wheeler) has been appointed as a full member of the United Kingdom Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in place of the Hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent Central (Jo Gideon).
The Hon. Member for Jarrow (Kate Osborne) has been appointed as a full member of the United Kingdom Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
Lord Griffiths of Burry Port has been appointed as a full member of the United Kingdom Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in place of Baroness Massey of Darwen.
The Rt. Hon. Member for Rochester and Strood (Kelly Tolhurst) has been appointed as a substitute member of the United Kingdom Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in place of the Hon. Member for Cities of London and Westminster (Nickie Aiken).
The Rt. Hon. the Lord Touhig has been appointed as a substitute member of the United Kingdom Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
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Founded on 5 May, 1949 by the Treaty of London, and currently seated in Strasbourg, membership is open to all European states which accept the princple of the rule of law and guarantee fundamental human rights and freedoms to their citizens. In 1950, this body created the European Convention on Human Rights, which laid out the foundation principles and basis on which the European Court of Human Rights stands.
Today, its primary activities include charters on a range of human rights, legal affairs, social cohesion policies, and focused working groups and charters on violence, democracy, and a range of other areas.
