Investigatory Powers Bill

My Lords, the restrictions on using internet connection records set out in these amendments are w...

We welcome the spirit of the Government’s amendments, which, as the noble and learned Lord said, ...

My Lords, I am obliged to the noble Lord. I welcome the suggestion that we are at least heading i...

Moved by

Lord Paddick

116: Clause 58, page 46, line 40, leave out “, in particular,” ...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 116 in my name and that of my noble friend Lady Hamwee. We a...

My Lords, I have added my name to Amendment 154 and will not repeat what has been said about it. ...

My Lords, as the noble Lord, Lord Paddick, has explained, these three amendments all deal with th...

I am grateful to the Minister for his explanation and am encouraged by the promise of government ...

Moved by

Earl Howe

117: Clause 58, page 47, line 7, leave out “and proportionate”

Moved by

Lord Lucas

119: Clause 58, page 47, line 12, at end insert—

“( ) for t...

My Lords, in moving Amendment 119, I will also address Amendment 202 in this group. At Second Rea...

My Lords, Clause 58 is the first clause of Part 3 of the Bill and deals with the targeted obtaini...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend for his reply. I am not surprised but disappointed, but I shall...

Moved by

Earl Howe

120: Clause 58, page 47, line 33, at end insert—

“( ) The fa...

Moved by

Earl Howe

123: After Clause 58, insert the following new Clause—

“Rest...

Moved by

Earl Howe

124: Clause 59, page 48, line 1, at beginning insert “the investig...

My Lords, in moving Amendment 124 I shall speak also to Amendment 127. We consider the requiremen...

My Lords, my noble friend Lady Hamwee and I have Amendment 126 in this group. It attempts to chal...

My Lords, Amendment 126, as the noble Lord, Lord Paddick, has just explained, concerns the indepe...

I am grateful to the noble Earl for giving way. We entirely accept that some public authorities w...

I am very grateful to the noble Lord. He is right: in some small public authorities there will be...

I would just add that we do not disagree that a public authority may be so small that there is no...

Moved by

Earl Howe

127: Clause 59, page 48, line 2, leave out “being” and insert “is”...

Moved by

Earl Howe

130: Clause 61, page 49, line 21, after “authorisation” insert “—<...

Moved by

Lord Paddick

134: Clause 63, page 50, line 15, after “may” insert “by regula...

My Lords, in moving Amendment 134, which is in my name and that of my noble friend Lady Hamwee, I...

My Lords, I have Amendments 141 and 143 in this group. I very much share the concern of the noble...

My Lords, I shall speak briefly on the amendments on the request filter. Along with internet conn...

My Lords, I shall use the opportunity that arises from Amendments 140 and 146A to ask the Ministe...

My Lords, I find the amendment moved by the noble Lord, Lord Paddick, difficult to understand. He...

My Lords, Clauses 63 to 65 provide that the Secretary of State may establish, maintain and operat...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his response. We were concerned that the privacy provision in ...

Moved by

Earl Howe

136: Clause 63, page 50, line 18, leave out from “the” to “or” in ...

Moved by

Earl Howe

139: Clause 64, page 51, line 31, leave out from “the” to “conside...

Moved by

Lord Paddick

145: Clause 67, page 53, line 38, leave out “add a public autho...

My Lords, Amendments 146 and 147 in this group are also in my name and the name of my noble frien...

My Lords, these amendments all concern the public authorities that are able to acquire communicat...

Obviously, this is a very important area, which has given rise to a lot of public concern about h...

My Lords, I was referring to the procedure relating to the enhanced affirmative process. That pro...

I am grateful for the noble Earl’s explanation. The noble Lord, Lord King of Bridgwater, raised t...

Moved by

Lord Strasburger

147A: After Clause 72, insert the following new Clause—

My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendment 147A in my name and that of my noble friend Lord Paddick. ...

My Lords, I wish to speak to Amendment 156A in my name and that of my noble friend Lady Hamwee. B...

I understand the importance of safeguards, but the noble Lord’s thrust is that he is against the ...

I am grateful for the chance to clarify my position. That is my position: we disagree with the co...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord King, touched on the issue of the Joint Committee. It may be usefu...

My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendment 156A and cite the simple facts about internet connection r...

My Lords, I will speak briefly. The Committee has listened with great interest to the noble Lord,...

My Lords, I will speak in support of Amendment 156A but I also support Amendment 147A, which was ...

Does the noble Lord not remember that some of us tried to anticipate some of these problems and b...

If the noble Lord had been in his place at Second Reading, he would have heard me give exactly th...

I assure my noble friend and the noble Lord, Lord King, that the report by the Joint Committee wa...

If the noble Lord looks at the report, he will see that the paragraphs that I referred to were un...

My Lords, I was slightly puzzled by the comments from the noble Lord, Lord Paddick, suggesting th...

I did not say that. Perhaps I can assist the Committee. What I said was that the security service...

I apologise if I misunderstood the reference to GCHQ and the National Crime Agency and the way in...

My Lords, I, too, was a member of the Joint Committee. This is the first time I have spoken on th...

My Lords, after a good deal of thought, my conclusion is that I support the conclusions of the Jo...

My Lords, I have not spoken at all on this Bill so far but I should like to make a practical poin...

My Lords, I shall be very brief. As has been said, the provisions of this Bill have been subject ...

My Lords, Amendment 156A seeks to prevent the retention of internet connection records. The Commi...

Does the Minister accept that the point is not just that we are in front of other common-law juri...

I invite the noble Lord to have a little more confidence in the parliamentary procedures in the U...

Will the Minister give way?

Not just yet. The fact that other jurisdictions may have taken a different view is to be noticed ...

This Committee is part of the process of the scrutiny of legislation, and therefore this House sh...

I am most obliged to the noble Lord for his intervention. Of course, I did not accompany him to t...

The Minister may have given an impression, which I am sure he did not intend, that by scrutinisin...

No doubt noble Lords are cognisant of the three reports and the Joint Committee’s recommendations...

My Lords, I thank the House for an interesting and lively debate, which this subject absolutely d...

Moved by

Lord Paddick

150: Clause 77, page 61, line 6, leave out from “(1)” to end of...

My Lords, perhaps this is a bit of light relief. Clause 77(1) defines what conduct is lawful when...

My Lords, the provisions on the lawfulness of conduct authorised by Part 3 replicate those that a...

I thank the noble and learned Lord for what he has said. However, we tabled this probing amendmen...

I am not in a position to give a specific answer to that question, but I am content to write to t...

I am very grateful to the noble and learned Lord for his promise to write on this issue. My quest...

Moved by

Earl Howe

151: Clause 80, page 62, line 32, leave out from beginning to “wer...

Moved by

Earl Howe

155: Clause 83, page 65, line 20, at end insert—

“( ) The fa...

Moved by

Lord Rosser

156: Clause 83, page 65, line 21, leave out subsection (9) and i...

The intention behind this amendment to Clause 83 is to replicate the Data Retention and Investiga...

My Lords, the amendment seeks to amend the definition of “relevant communications data”—that is, ...

Perhaps I may ask a question on that point. Not unfairly, the noble Earl made reference to regula...

The noble Lord makes what is, on the face of it, a fair point. We have language, as I have explai...

I thank the Minister for that explanation. In the light of what he has said on behalf of the Gove...

Moved by

Earl Howe

157: Clause 88, page 67, line 34, at end insert—

“( ) The fa...

Moved by

Lord Paddick

158A: Clause 93, page 70, line 6, leave out paragraph (c)

My Lords, this amendment is one of several in this group in my name and that of my noble friend L...

My Lords, I listened very carefully to the noble Lord, Lord Paddick, and his explanation of his a...

I am obliged to noble Lords. I know that these are probing amendments and I shall address them in...

I am very grateful for the lengthy explanation that the noble and learned Lord has provided. Howe...

I shall be happy to write to the noble Lord on the three particular points. I do not