Recommendation 5

Over the last century, there have been significant quantitative and qualitative changes to the nature of international agreements; they now reach into people’s everyday lives in the UK and around the world. They seek not only to deal with relations between states, but increasingly to address problems which one state cannot solve alone. In many instances, treaties have, as a consequence, become more akin to domestic legislation. International agreements are now concerned with domestic as well as international affairs, and accordingly this makes them a fundamental concern for Parliament.