Lord Palmer – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Palmer on 2015-11-24.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what legal basis the WHO’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control has in English law.
Lord Prior of Brampton
The World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control is an international treaty establishing general guidelines and principles for international governance on tobacco control. The United Kingdom ratified the Treaty in 2004 and takes its obligations under the Convention very seriously.
