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HANSARD Investigatory Powers (Amendment)Bill [Lords]I will satisfy my right hon. Friend immediately and, I hope, save him time in his speech. Local authority trading standards teams are responsible for a range of legislation where…25 Mar 2024HANSARD Investigatory Powers (Amendment)Bill [Lords]rose—25 Mar 2024HANSARD Investigatory Powers (Amendment)Bill [Lords]On the grounds that it will save me time when I wrap up at the end of the debate, I will make it clear now. His Majesty’s Treasury is responsible for civil enforcement of…25 Mar 2024HANSARD Investigatory Powers (Amendment)Bill [Lords]The right hon. Member will understand that IPCO is operationally independent, so I will not instruct the office or speak for Sir Brian, who has been unbelievably rapid and helpful…25 Mar 2024HANSARD Investigatory Powers (Amendment)Bill [Lords]Right hon. and hon. Members will be delighted to hear that, having answered colleagues as we went along, I have only a few short words to conclude. [Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”] I…25 Mar 2024HANSARD Investigatory Powers (Amendment)Bill [Lords]If my right hon. and learned Friend will forgive me, I will be able discuss that in a more secure environment, but I can only say, “Not necessarily.” I will be able to describe…25 Mar 2024HANSARD Investigatory Powers (Amendment)Bill [Lords]Again, just to clarify for my right hon. Friend, this Bill offers no greater expansion than his own Bill did in 2016. In the same way he ensured that Bill was no snoopers’…25 Mar 2024HANSARD Investigatory Powers (Amendment)Bill [Lords]The right hon. Member has made his point and I have made mine; I am afraid I will leave it there rather than continue. The ways in which we have been able to engage on the Bill…25 Mar 2024HANSARDTerrorism Prevention and Investigation MeasuresSection 19(1) of the Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures Act 2011 requires the Secretary of State for the Home Department, my right hon. Friend the Member for…25 Mar 2024HANSARD Investigatory Powers (Amendment)Bill [Lords]I was going to do so!25 Mar 2024HANSARD Investigatory Powers (Amendment)Bill [Lords]I beg to move, That the Bill be read the Third time. I pay huge tribute to all the contributions from across this House, and particularly to my hon. Friend the Member for North…25 Mar 2024HANSARD Investigatory Powers (Amendment)Bill [Lords]I apologise to my right hon. Friend. These powers are not permissive in the sense that they are expansive: they are permissive only in the sense applied to them by this law, with…25 Mar 2024HANSARD Investigatory Powers (Amendment)Bill [Lords]As always, the hon. Gentleman is quite right to highlight the areas I touched on. The important thing about the Panama papers was that they changed. They would have enjoyed a high…25 Mar 2024HANSARD Investigatory Powers (Amendment)Bill [Lords]I thank the hon. Gentleman for the spirit in which he has addressed this issue, and he deserves a proper response. There is a valid concern that this is a process of engagement…25 Mar 2024HANSARD Investigatory Powers (Amendment)Bill [Lords]Yes.25 Mar 2024HANSARD Investigatory Powers (Amendment)Bill [Lords]I can give my right hon. Friend that assurance.25 Mar 2024HANSARD Investigatory Powers (Amendment)Bill [Lords]I very much hope the right hon. Gentleman has brought Lord West’s smelling salts with him, because I would like to clarify the concession that Lord West got in the Lords here in…25 Mar 2024HANSARD Investigatory Powers (Amendment)Bill [Lords]If my right hon. Friend will forgive me, I will use the words I am using. Those powers will be used as infrequently as we all hope they will be, but they will be used in keeping…25 Mar 2024HANSARD Investigatory Powers (Amendment)Bill [Lords]Take them where you can get them!25 Mar 2024HANSARDInvestigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)I thank hon. Members for their points. The examination of third-party bulk personal datasets by the intelligence services is vital to their role of protecting the national…07 Mar 2024