Written Question·Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office·UIN 88557

European Court of Human Rights

Tabled: 5 November 2025

Answered: 12 November 2025

Question

Neil Duncan-Jordan

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of membership of the ECHR.

Answer

Stephen Doughty

The UK is already a High Contracting Party of the ECHR and has been since it entered into force in 1953.