Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Bill

As I have said, the law will be exactly as it now stands. My hon. Friend will know that there are...

I just want to ensure that I understand the Minister’s answer. Perhaps I did not phrase my questi...

It is certainly not our plan or intention—indeed, it is not part of our process—to make those sor...

Does my hon. Friend accept that the impact of the European Court of Justice judgment is enormous ...

Obviously, we have considered carefully the impact of the European Court of Justice judgment, the...

May I refer the Minister back to the question that was asked by my hon. Friend the Member for Sto...

As my hon. Friend knows, legislation is always subject to court challenges. That is the nature of...

The Chair of the Joint Committee on Human Rights made the extremely valid point that it would hav...

I know that point has been raised, and the hon. Gentleman will see that clause 1(4)(f) enables th...

I am trying to be helpful. When will that code be published, and how will it be scrutinised?

We are seeking to ensure that the code is drafted effectively, and we are looking at ways that th...

My hon. Friend referred to our courts, and I am sure that by that he meant our domestic courts. U...

Part of the reason we are introducing the Bill is to give that fundamental statutory underpinning...

I am happy to support the legislation, but I would like to clarify one small but important point ...

Given the nature of the legislation, we are clear that it is reserved, so it does not require a l...

In light of that, the Government accept that this is a reserved matter and I am happy that that i...

We have kept the Northern Ireland Executive up to speed with the proposals, sending them details ...

Clause 1(2)(b) states that it will

“require the retention of all data or any description of...

My hon. Friend needs to understand that clause 1(2) is framed in the context of clause 1, which m...

Is my hon. Friend aware that Professor Steve Peers of Essex university—he is an expert in this fi...

If my hon. Friend reads the judgment, he will see that the Court upheld the principle of retentio...

My hon. Friend is making a perfectly good and sound case and I am pleased that he used the phrase...

My hon. Friend has expressed his views on a number of occasions on the need for continued focus o...

May I make one last intervention?

One last go.

I am extremely grateful. My hon. Friend is pursuing doggedly what I believe to be a fundamentally...

I know the clear position that my hon. Friend has enunciated on many occasions in the House. Ther...

I welcome you to the Chair of this important Committee, Sir Roger. I shall not detain the Committ...

I would be interested to know the Opposition’s view on the issue of our laws being trumped by sec...

I take the view that we are part of the European Union, so we have to respect our obligations wit...

Let us assume for the sake of argument that all the provisions in subsections (1) and (2) are des...

I think that the hon. Gentleman would expect me to say that if we were the Government and the leg...

I wonder whether, at this point, we are pursuing the personal obsession of the hon. Member for St...

My hon. Friend has made an important point. As the hon. Member for Stone will observe, further am...

The European law on which this legislation is ultimately based is a retention directive. We antic...

Order. The hon. Gentleman knows me well enough to know that I know that we are discussing clause ...

In respect of clause 1, we are also stating that a retention notice may relate to particular oper...

This clause is about retention; it is not about access. That distinction is an important one, not...

My right hon. Friend has been in this House for many years. Does he recall that a situation simil...

I have only remembered the case because my hon. Friend made the same point on a previous occasion...

My right hon. Friend the Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed (Sir Alan Beith) makes his point well. He ...

I simply ask the Minister whether he accepts—he has more or less done so—that there is a risk tha...

I understand my hon. Friend’s points. I am always sympathetic to the aim of having clarity in leg...

Before we move on to clause 2, I should inform the House that the Home Secretary has tabled new c...

Clause 2 sets out the meaning of various terms used in clause 1 and includes provisions that unde...

I beg to move amendment 1, page 4, line 19, at end insert—

‘(5) In section 25 (interpretati...

With this it will be convenient to discuss clause stand part; there will be no further debate on ...

It was said on Second Reading, but it bears repeating that clause 3 does move things on slightly ...

The right hon. Gentleman serves on the Intelligence and Security Committee, and I used to serve o...

That intervention was helpful. I said at the outset that the wording of clause 3 took us slightly...

rose—

I see that I have tempted my hon. Friend into intervening.

Does my right hon. Friend accept that perhaps most of our colleagues have not had time to read hi...

I am interested to hear my hon. Friend’s concern. I went to the Vote Office at half-past 8 this m...

I fear that it was wishful thinking on the part of the right hon. Member for Knowsley (Mr Howarth...

The hon. Gentleman’s contribution is very welcome.

I am grateful. I will keep my contribution as short as possible, because other Members want to ge...

I have heard several comments that clause 3 does not need to be in fast-track legislation, and it...

indicated dissent.

The right hon. Gentleman shakes his head, so that is clear. But I would be very worried about any...

My concern was not to empower interception for those purposes, but to empower countermeasures in ...

That is helpful. There is general agreement, but it was something that struck me when I read the ...

There is a huge amount of concern that the legislation as it was previously and has been presente...

I do not know the answer to the hon. Lady’s question. That would seem inappropriate if it was abo...

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving me the opportunity to reassure my hon. Friend the ...

I am always delighted to enable two Labour Members to talk to each other. Having facilitated that...

I will make a short contribution in support of my right hon. Friend the Member for Knowsley (Mr H...

I thank the right hon. Member for Knowsley (Mr Howarth) for tabling the amendment and giving us a...

The Minister will be aware that in the past the security services have taken a great interest in ...

It is always difficult for Ministers—not just me; this has been the case with successive Governme...

Ought we and the hon. Member for North Ayrshire and Arran (Katy Clark) not to be celebrating the ...

The right hon. Gentleman makes an important point. We are putting this provision front and centre...

The concern that many have is that, in the past, national security has been considered to be a ca...

I am genuinely surprised that the hon. Lady has made her point in that way, because the Bill is a...

May I just hammer the point home? Economic well-being would not be mentioned in the Bill were we ...

Absolutely. My right hon. Friend makes a very good comment for me to conclude on. Clause 3, which...

rose—

I will give way one last time before I sit down.

The debate has been worth while. I have some sympathy for the hon. Member for North Ayrshire and ...

My hon. Friend makes his customary point about ensuring that there is such clarity. I am sure tha...

I will be brief. I am happy to withdraw amendment 1, which I tabled as a probing amendment. The M...

The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 allows the Secretary of State to issue intercepti...

Will the Minister make clear what consequences the clause might have for overseas providers? Is t...

I hope that the hon. Gentleman will understand that I cannot comment on surveillance techniques. ...

May I confirm, for the benefit of the Committee, that what the Minister has just said about the i...

I am very grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for providing that clarification and for highlight...

I am interested in the practical application of this measure. What happens if a foreign IT provid...

The approach we have taken is to promote co-operation, and stating as clearly as possible that th...

Perhaps my previous question was not clear. A number of companies are concerned about the importa...

Perhaps I did not explain this clearly to the hon. Gentleman, but we are not intending to add add...

I raised this point on Second Reading but I do not think the Minister had an opportunity to respo...

Provisions on a person having a specified address, such as proposed new subsection (3B)(b), refer...

The Minister has provided the reassurance I was looking for, so at this point I can say that I am...

My hon. Friend the Member for Esher and Walton (Mr Raab) asked an important question: what will t...

My hon. Friend makes an extremely important point. There has been a lot of talk about privacy, bu...

I entirely agree with my hon. Friend, who is a fierce defender of the rights of individuals. I ho...

I have two questions and I would be grateful if the Minister provided a written response to them,...

I will respond briefly to the points made in the debate. On the latter point, I hope that my hon....

Clause 5 is a simple but necessary part of the Bill that puts into law an important clarification...

I beg to move amendment 3, page 6, line 41, at end insert

“and is subject to a reporting re...

With this it will be convenient to take the following:

Amendment 4, page 7, line 1, leave o...

This goes to the heart of the key amendments that the Opposition seek to impress on the Governmen...

Instagram?

My daughters tell me that I should get involved in Instagram, but it is a foreign country to me a...

The Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act 1989 was also subject to a six-monthly rev...

My hon. Friend has done long service in this House and will have been through many debates on tha...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Hood, and to take part in this debate and s...

I agree with the hon. Gentleman. What our constituents really want is proper scrutiny of legislat...

I completely agree. It has been mentioned that there have been few MPs in the Chamber for some of...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Hood, and to follow the hon. Member for Wes...

Order. I must ask the hon. Member for Sedgefield (Phil Wilson) to come to order.

Thank you, Mr Hood.

What the hon. Member for West Bromwich East set out is very tempting. I...

May I parry the hon. Gentleman with another Act? The Academies Act 2010 was introduced on 26 May ...

I agree that it could take six months, which is shorter than the normal time scale, but it still ...

The hon. Gentleman is trying very hard on this. I am stuck with the very basic point of why, if h...

As I have said, I would be very happy to stay longer and have a less rushed Bill. We need to get ...

rose—

Let me make a little more progress. The type of change that I want to see is fundamental to how R...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

I promised the hon. Member for Islington North (Jeremy Corbyn) that I would give way to him first...

I do not wish to be unkind, but the hon. Gentleman is confusing me. He says that he would sit unt...

The answer to the hon. Gentleman’s point is that we simply do not have the time to make that happ...

The hon. Gentleman will be aware that there is already a significant amount of criticism from peo...

That delves into subjects that I am unable to get too involved in. It is a shame that the matter ...

I will deal first with the point made by the hon. Member for Cambridge (Dr Huppert) and others ab...

The right hon. Gentleman says that we have all seen what the Government have seen of what is behi...

I do not know in precise detail. I used to know when I was responsible for these matters as Home ...

If we are to believe that that is the only effect of clause 6, and that companies have said that ...

That is a matter for the Minister. Sometimes, companies do not wish to be named; sometimes they d...

My right hon. Friend seems to be making the case that the lack of attendees in the Chamber sugges...

If I started discussing the importance of the party system, I think Mr Hood would pull me up shor...

Order. I obviously agree with the right hon. Member’s opinion about his hon. Friend, but it would...

Apologies; as a relatively new Member, I was misled by my hon. Friend.

I come back to the p...

I started out today very much in the same place as my hon. Friend the Member for West Bromwich Ea...

My hon. Friend puts it much better than I did. That is the truth. We have a compressed programme ...

Apart from the fact that the right hon. Gentleman cannot count his months, I make the serious poi...

Of course I accept that the public are concerned, but from my long experience they have a clear v...

I rise to support amendment 2, tabled by the hon. Member for West Bromwich East (Mr Watson). This...

I hope that my hon. Friend the Member for West Bromwich East (Mr Watson) has formally requested a...

Having made a brief intervention earlier that was largely helpful to Members on both Front Benche...

My hon. Friend says, quite properly, that there is time for those of us who are concerned to make...

I hope my right hon. Friend accepts that the nub of my short contribution is to say that we shoul...

If we are all trying to be open and straight with people, why do we not just own up to the fact t...

I always love it when an Opposition Member precisely anticipates my final point. My love, affecti...

I support amendment 2, which was tabled by my hon. Friend the Member for West Bromwich East (Mr W...

I spoke a lot in the debate earlier and was not going to speak again until my colleague, the hon....

I will speak to Government amendments 7 and 8 and new clause 7, which were tabled by my right hon...

Order. I can hear murmuring. I have a wee bit of industrial deafness from a previous life, but ev...

Thank you, Mr Hood.

New clause 1 shows that there is overlapping ground on the review. Ther...

The Minister is conflating two issues that amendment 2 seeks to deal with. First, this House has ...

We are going back over ground addressed on Second Reading and in the programme motion debate, but...

We have had a useful debate on the amendments. The Opposition had two objectives in tabling our a...

I call the Minister to move amendment 7 formally.

On a point of order, Mr. Hood. I believe that amendment 5 is a technical amendment that may also ...

That is not a point of order. I can tell the Minister that we will take amendment 5 after we deal...

I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.

With this it will be convenient to discuss new clause 4—Legal certainty for transparency reportin...

These are, I hope, two unobjectionable new clauses, which seek clarity from the Government about ...

I warmly endorse what the hon. Gentleman is saying. Does he agree that if more examples were give...

The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. Unfortunately, the approach taken for, I believe, many de...

I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Cambridge (Dr Huppert) for tabling these new clauses to ena...

Will my hon. Friend take on board the point I made in my intervention a few moments ago? Although...

I know that my hon. Friend understands the importance of communications data in the fight against...

The Minister talked about that two-week snapshot from 2012. Is that the most recent survey that l...

My hon. Friend argues for a different style of approach. He talks about a limited period and then...

I appreciate that my hon. Friend is mainly talking about the gathering and publication of statist...

In highlighting case studies, my hon. Friend makes an important point. A number of case studies i...

I thank the Minister for his comments. The move towards greater transparency will benefit us all,...

I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.

I am grateful to be called at this la...

My hon. Friend has raised these points during the course of the debate and I note the points that...

I wish to press my amendment to a Division.

Question put, That the clause be read a Second ...

I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Third time.

We have had a lively and constructiv...

I am sure the Home Secretary knows that I am, in general, supportive of the Bill, but, in the lig...

As I indicated earlier, and as I think others have indicated during the course of the various deb...

We have had the Second Reading and four hours of debate in Committee, and we have now reached Thi...

At the end of this rather long day, I want to reflect briefly on where we are in this area. There...

For the sake of completeness I want to say a few words having sat here not quite as long as some ...

Following on from the hon. Member for Brighton, Pavilion (Caroline Lucas), I fear that there is n...

The hon. Member for Brighton, Pavilion (Caroline Lucas) said that those of us who oppose the Bill...

I have a constituent who came down to London from Liverpool airport, where he worked, to try to g...

We have to clarify whether the implications of the Bill would have persisted in that case. A numb...

The hon. Gentleman expresses a lot of the concerns that are felt even by those of us who wish to ...

What I found extraordinary was the argument that a sunset clause for the end of this year would n...