Justice and Security Bill [HL]

I have not intervened in this debate because I have really just been listening with interest and support most of things that have been suggested. If there were a great story in the press—with some truth in it or not, about the operations of the service—I would certainly regard it as my duty to report to the ISC as soon as I reasonably could. It would be reassuring to believe that there is nothing in this drafting to prevent that. It is part of the ongoing confidence-building between the two that the ISC does not have to demand a report on something like that, but gets an early report of the facts from the agencies.