Joint Committee to question the Secretary of State for Justice on the human rights implications of the actions taken to tackle coronavirus

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• Inquiry: The Government's response to COVID-19: human rights implications 
• Joint Committee on Human Rights

The Joint Committee on Human Rights is a select committee chaired by Harriet Harman MP and consists of half MPs and half peers.

The Committee will be questioning the justice minister on human rights issues including:

• Whether police action in supporting social distancing has respected human rights or overstepped the mark;
• Whether in order to protect the right to family life for children of mothers in prison he will institute early release for non-violent women offenders in prison;
• What measures will be put in place to protect privacy if a tracing app is introduced;
• How he is protecting the right of young people with autism and/or learning disabilities detained in institutions not to be subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment when parents are prevented from visiting and inspections suspended;  and
• What monitoring of human rights he is undertaking particularly of prosecutions of people for breaching the new lockdown regulations.

Witnesses

Monday 20 April.

At 2.30pm

• Rt Hon. Robert Buckland QC MP, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice
• Andrew Waldren, Deputy Director of the Human Rights Team

Further information

• About Parliament: Select committees

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