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HANSARDInvestigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)As always, my right hon. Friend asks a pertinent question. I hope he will forgive me for saying that I very much hope that the letter I asked to be sent arrived in his inbox this…07 Mar 2024HANSARDInvestigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)I am very happy to ask them; I am just stating clearly that they are not under the responsibility that I have as a Minister. The legal powers that they are given are not…07 Mar 2024HANSARDInvestigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)Forgive me, but the right hon. Gentleman is asking for a very large piece of work there. I am setting out the legal authority under which those organisations can act. Their…07 Mar 2024HANSARDInvestigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)The right hon. Gentleman tempts me towards an area that the Bill does not cover, so I hope he will forgive me for focusing on what it does cover, such as the safeguards. Clause 14…07 Mar 2024HANSARDInvestigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)I am very happy to write to the hon. Gentleman.07 Mar 2024HANSARDInvestigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)I am delighted to clarify that the letter was emailed to my right hon. Friend the Member for South Holland and The Deepings. He is a traditionalist in many ways, but I believe he…07 Mar 2024HANSARDInvestigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)To be absolutely clear, the letter was in response to my right hon. Friend the Member for South Holland and The Deepings, so it was sent to him, it was copied to the secretariat…07 Mar 2024HANSARDInvestigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)As always, I welcome my right hon. Friend’s contribution. That is covered in many areas in the letter I wrote to him.07 Mar 2024HANSARDInvestigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)The changes made by clause 15 should transform the intelligence services and the National Crime Agency’s ability to detect serious criminals and those seeking to undermine…07 Mar 2024HANSARDInvestigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)I beg to move amendment 3, in clause 22, page 47, line 17, leave out from “and” to end of line 19 and insert— “(b) has the necessary operational awareness to decide whether to…07 Mar 2024HANSARDInvestigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)As usual, right hon. and hon. Members have raised some excellent points. Let me be clear: it is not true to say that there is no judicial oversight. To say that there is no…07 Mar 2024HANSARDInvestigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)I will speak more widely to clause 12 before addressing the amendment. The clause does not create new routes to obtain communications data outside the Investigatory Powers Act.…07 Mar 2024HANSARDInvestigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)I will happily ask. The right hon. Gentleman is asking for internal management structures, though.07 Mar 2024HANSARDInvestigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)The Bill makes minor changes to the equipment interference regime, specifically in relation to the warrantry processes associated with its authorisation. The purposes behind those…07 Mar 2024HANSARDInvestigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, the Investigatory Powers Commissioner’s Office is not, and never has been, a public authority within the scope of the Act. The lack of…07 Mar 2024HANSARDInvestigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)To answer the last part of the question first, the holding on to data and what is to be done with it is the same as under the IPA generally. Information can be held or not held…07 Mar 2024HANSARDInvestigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)Clause 11 will ensure that there is clarity for telecommunications operators operating within the IPA framework about which regulatory body certain personal data breaches should…07 Mar 2024HANSARDInvestigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)Clause 28 will amend schedule 3 to the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 to provide exceptions for disclosures of intercepted materials to inquiries or inquests in Northern Ireland or…07 Mar 2024HANSARDInvestigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)On a point of order, Mrs Cummins. I would like to express my extreme personal thanks to Tom Ball and the Bill team, Phoebe, the Lucys, and the many others who have contributed…07 Mar 2024HANSARDInvestigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)First, I welcome the interactions we have had on this point, as well as the work of Lord Coaker and Lord Sharpe to ensure that this is widely understood. The work that has been…07 Mar 2024