To ask Her Majesty's Government what response they have given to the European Court of Human Rights' invitation to submit written observations on the admissibility and merits of Application No 31965/07 Hardy & Maile v the United Kingdom for which a response was initially required by 17 February, subsequently extended by the court to 5 March at the request of Her Majesty's Government. [HL2910]

The Government have submitted written observations as requested by the European Court of Human Rights, setting out the Government's position that this application is inadmissible for non-exhaustion of domestic remedies, alternatively that there is no violation of the convention.