Member

The noble Baroness, Lady Kennedy, and I recently met with the noble Baroness, Lady Chapman of Darlington, from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. I felt at the end of our conversation that she had become much more receptive to what the Joint Committee on Human Rights was trying to achieve. As she left the meeting, she said that we should meet with the Attorney-General. That meeting has not yet happened, although a few days ago I briefly met the noble and learned Lord, Lord Hermer, and he said that his door is open. It would be really helpful if the noble Lord, Lord Hanson, were able to be present at that meeting as well, because this stretches across departments, and I think the briefings that have been given to Ministers may have been based on misconceptions, some of which I tried to deal with earlier in my remarks.