First, about every six months we might get a letter to our Ministers asking
about ratification, usually from the same person, asking why the U.K. has not
yet ratified the Convention and when it is going to do so. This does not
demonstrate to us that failure of the U.K. to implement the Convention is
having an adverse effect on the U.K. economy. Rather it is the opposite; there
doesn’t seem to be a problem with the current position as business is not
suffering. If it were a problem, we would expect Ministers to have this raised
with them at every available opportunity. Our usual answer is that the U.K.
will ratify if and when Parliamentary time allows