The Conservative party manifesto included a pledge to replace the Human Rights Act with a British Bill of Rights. Sadly when the coalition was formed this was downgraded in the coalition agreement to a commitment to establish a Commission to investigate the creation of a British Bill of Rights which will report by the end of the year. And this is important, whilst it's right that we protect the Human Rights of individuals its also right that those rights are decided by elected MPs here in the UK. Just last week the Home Secretary felt the need to pass a motion in the House to ensure the courts were aware that the right to a family life, under article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, doesn't mean that foreign criminals can avoid deportation at the end of their sentence. It's therefore clear that the current system of legislation is not working as we would want it to. That's why I'm very happy to have been one of 10 MPs that formally supported the introduction of Charlie Elphicke's private members bill to repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of rights. The Bill was introduced on the 25th of June and is scheduled for a second reading on the 1st of March 2013 when more details will be available.