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Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office written statement – made at on 2 November 2026.
Lord Wood of Anfield
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
The Hon. Member for Washington and Gateshead South (Mrs Sharon Hodgson MP) has been appointed as a full member of the United Kingdom Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in place of the Hon. Member for Sherwood Forest (Michelle Welsh MP)
The Hon. Member for Wrexham (Andrew Ranger MP) has been appointed as a substitute member of the United Kingdom Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in place of the Hon. Member for Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock (Elaine Stewart MP)
An international organisation of member states (45 at the time of writing) in the European region; not to be confused with the Council of the European Union, nor the European Council.
Founded on 5 May, 1949 by the Treaty of London, and currently seated in Strasbourg, membership is open to all European states which accept the princple of the rule of law and guarantee fundamental human rights and freedoms to their citizens. In 1950, this body created the European Convention on Human Rights, which laid out the foundation principles and basis on which the European Court of Human Rights stands.
Today, its primary activities include charters on a range of human rights, legal affairs, social cohesion policies, and focused working groups and charters on violence, democracy, and a range of other areas.
