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Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill

Why, then, does the Victims and Prisoners Bill, as presented by the Government, require the Secretary of State to consult the Attorney-General before amending the victims’ code, if there is this long-standing convention that the Government are indivisible and the Attorney-General will always be consulted on important matters? Also, why is this significant decision potentially to ignore interim relief from the Strasbourg court for Ministers and not Parliament, given that the Government’s central argument in this Bill is about parliamentary sovereignty?

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
836 c478 
Session
2023-24
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
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