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Homosexuality Law

Volume 169: debated on Monday 19 March 1990

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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps he intends to take in relation to the criminal law on homosexuality in (a) Jersey and (b) the Isle of Man.

Discussions between the Home Office and the Jersey and Isle of Man authorities are continuing. Both islands have been made aware of the urgent need to amend their current legislation in order to enable the United Kingdom to conform with its international obligations under the European convention on human rights.