To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his answer of 21 July, Official Report, column 385, if he will list those who responded to the consultation document "Bringing Rights Home", published in December 1996; and what further discussions on the incorporation of the European convention on human rights have been held since. [11937]

We received responses to "Bringing Rights Home" from the following persons and organisations:

• Charter 88
• Churches Commission for Racial Justice
• Data Protection Registrar
• Director of Human Rights, Council of Europe
• Martin Doherty
• Editor of the "European Human Rights Law Review"
• Avril Fox
• Guild of Editors
• Sir Basil Hall
• Human Rights Incorporation Project
• Institute for Public Policy Research
• Joseph Jaconelli
• Justice
• Martin Kenny
• Law Society
• David Lepper
• Liberty
• Karen Maloney
• Frank McManus
• Councillor N. Perrott
• Public Law Project
• Royal National Institute for Deaf People
• Rabinder Singh
• Standing Advisory Commission on Human Rights
• Dr. Robert Wintemute
• Enid Wistrich.

Home Office Ministers have had meetings to discuss incorporation of the convention with Charter 88, the Human Rights Incorporation Project, the Institute for Public Policy Research, Sir Kenneth Keith, Liberty, my noble Friend the Lord Lester of Herne Hill and Justice.