Religious Freedom

Ministry of Justice written question – answered on 13th September 2022.

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Photo of Martyn Day Martyn Day Shadow SNP Spokesperson (Health and Social Care)

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Answer of 15 February 2022 to Question 119628 on Religious Freedom and to his Department's consultation entitled Human Rights Act Reform: A Modern Bill of Rights, published on 14 December 2021, what recent assessment he has made of the potential effect of clauses 3(2) and 3(3)(a) of the Bill of Rights Bill on equality under the law for (a) humanists, (b) atheists and (c) other non-religious people.

Photo of Martyn Day Martyn Day Shadow SNP Spokesperson (Health and Social Care)

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Answer of 15 February 2022 to Question 119627 on Religious Freedom and to his Department's consultation entitled Human Rights Act Reform: A Modern Bill of Rights, published on 14 December 2021, whether the Bill of Rights Bill will help to ensure that references to religion in (a) legislation and (b) guidance will be interpreted as religion or belief, in the context of clauses 3(2) and 3(3)(a) of the Bill of Rights Bill.

Photo of Martyn Day Martyn Day Shadow SNP Spokesperson (Health and Social Care)

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the judgment in R (Fox) v Secretary of State for Education [2015] EWHC 3404, to the Answer of 14 February 2022 to Question 119631 on Religion: Education and to his Department's consultation entitled Human Rights Act Reform: A Modern Bill of Rights, published on 14 December 2021, whether he has had discussions with the Secretary of State for Education on the potential impact of clauses 3(2) and 3(3)(a) of the Bill of Rights Bill on the Government's policies on the delivery of religious education.

Photo of Sarah Dines Sarah Dines Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Ministry of Justice and Home Office)

As is the case whenever a new government is formed, we are now looking again at the Bill of Rights to ensure that it meets the government’s objectives.

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