Lord Patten – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Patten on 2015-02-11.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they consider that the principles and prohibitions regarding eugenic practices in the Council of Europe Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine form part of the constitutional traditions common to member states of the European Union.

Earl Howe

The United Kingdom has not signed or ratified the Council of Europe’s Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine.