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Draft Investigatory Powers Bill

Proceeding contribution from Lord Bates (Conservative) in the House of Lords on Wednesday, 4 November 2015. It occurred during Ministerial statement on Draft Investigatory Powers Bill.

I am grateful to my noble friend. Of course, I recognise the work that he undertook, not only as chair of the Intelligence and Security Committee, which led a lot of the work on this area, but thinking back to those heady days earlier this year when we were taking through the Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill, which is now on the statute book. He is right about the urgency. DRIPA has a sunset clause of December. Sometimes I think that the House is at its best when its mind is focused. I think there is a general

consensus that we need to get this in place so that those powers continue to be available and that they are strengthened and made more accountable. I believe the timetable that has been set out is quite achievable but it will require a lot of focus.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
765 c1660 
Session
2015-16
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
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