I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving me the opportunity to reassure my hon. Friend the Member for North Ayrshire and Arran (Katy Clark) that it was certainly never my intention that it should be used for the purposes she described. I believe strongly in free trade unions and can think of no circumstances in which the state should intervene in that way.
Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Bill
Proceeding contribution from
George Howarth
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 15 July 2014.
It occurred during Debate on bills
and
Committee of the Whole House (HC) on Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Bill.
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