Investigatory Powers Bill

I am very grateful to the hon. Gentleman for advance notice of his point of order. Might I just m...

I beg to move, That this House disagrees with Lords amendment 11.

With this it will be convenient to discuss the following:

Lords amendment 12, and Governmen...

The Investigatory Powers Bill will provide a world-leading framework for the use of investigatory...

While I entirely accept that this is not the place to deal with those matters, I hope the Ministe...

I am grateful to my right hon. Friend, and I do, of course, recognise the strength of feeling abo...

I am wholly in favour of most of the other provisions of the Bill, but that is not the point we a...

I know that the hon. Gentleman is an impatient individual, but 10 weeks is not a long time to wai...

My hon. Friend makes a crucially important point. If SNP Members do not require the Sewel consent...

This is a very important point of principle.

The Minister asked me a question. I can only remind him of what Mr Speaker said when he was in th...

I think we can debate Zippy another time.

This is about an important issue of principle. Th...

What the hon. and learned Member for Edinburgh South West (Joanna Cherry) said may well be true, ...

Not for the first time, my hon. Friend is absolutely right. This is the last opportunity to amend...

The Minister is in a slightly unfair position because he did not pilot the Bill through the Bill ...

In the words of the hon. and learned Lady, my head does not zip up the back either. This is an am...

We have developed a fascinating constitutional suggestion that amendments made by SNP Members of ...

I am keen to move on, but merely say that how SNP Members vote today will certainly be a clear si...

The solution, of course, would be for the Government to accept Baroness Hollins’ amendments, and ...

Hear, hear!

My hon. Friend is right to say so.

Does the Minister accept that the only objection to this...

I hear my hon. Friend’s comments, but this is like saying, “Because we’re being blackmailed, we s...

I thank the Minister for that reassurance. I welcome the Government’s approach, particularly in a...

The whole House will hear my hon. Friend’s comments. He is a dedicated campaigner on privacy—in f...

Will my hon. Friend give way?

No, I am sorry.

On that basis, I urge this House to reject the Lords amendments in relation...

I rise to speak to the group of amendments and to Lords amendment 15 in particular. I pay tribute...

The hon. Lady is new to her position, as is the Minister. I served on the Bill Committee and she ...

We are not in the habit of artifice or crutches. Let us see what Members in the other place do wi...

Is not the point that the amendments almost exactly replicate legislation that was introduced by ...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for making an important intervention. Nobody is trying to hold up...

In that spirit, perhaps the hon. Lady could answer the question asked by my hon. Friend the Membe...

I do not deal in supposition. Let us see what Members in the other place do with the Bill, and at...

I have heard the hon. Lady say in other places what a future Labour Government would deliver. Tha...

When the hon. Gentleman heard me say those things, I was not yet shadow Home Secretary.

The...

For all the differences between me and the hon. Lady, I totally understand the importance that sh...

We are not attempting to hold up the Bill; all the Government have to do is accept the amendments...

I want to focus on several aspects of Lords amendment 15. First, I want to focus on what it is de...

My hon. Friend is making an excellent speech, as always. Does he agree that the regional press, w...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. The regional press and local newspapers will simply not be ab...

As ever, I am listening to my hon. Friend’s comments with a great deal of interest. I fear, howev...

That is not what the amendment does. It includes all the press, so the Midsomer Norton, Radstock ...

I hesitate to criticise the wisdom of my hon. Friend the Member for South West Wiltshire (Dr Murr...

My hon. Friend is right. Although some newspapers are part of bigger media groups, those media gr...

I hesitate to give the hon. Gentleman a lecture on constitutional procedure, but I can give him f...

Order. The hon. and learned Lady will very shortly have an opportunity to make her speech in full...

I will cover that point, and then swiftly come to a conclusion. The amendment was passed on 11 Oc...

rose—

I will leave the hon. and learned Lady to come back to this point in her own speech.

These ...

I rise to give the Scottish National party’s support to this group of Lords amendments.

Muc...

In the event that such a legislative consent motion were refused, would the hon. and learned Lady...

I assure the hon. Gentleman that it would not come to that, because if the amendment is passed by...

On memorandum 10, to which the hon. and learned Lady refers, is she saying that she is happy to a...

The hon. Gentleman is no doubt aware of what I did for a career before I came here. I have no int...

I will be as brief as possible. First, let me say how much I have enjoyed this afternoon’s debate...

You should be.

Yes, I should be. But being locked up as a Minister, I did not have the benefit of hearing the wi...

The right hon. Gentleman should try very hard not to misrepresent what I have said. I have not ma...

As my hon. Friend the Member for North East Somerset pointed out, the Scottish Parliament has had...

rose—

She did not answer either of them, so she would not answer me and I will not take her interventio...

Does my right hon. Friend agree that there is some help for us in this extremely big Bill at clau...

No. I have read the Bill, and in particular spent some time pondering whether clause 232 could he...

Will my right hon. Friend explain how small press outlets will be impacted by the Hollins amendme...

That is precisely the point. I was intrigued by what the hon. and learned Lady said. She said tha...

I was struck by the Minister—well, not physically—I was struck by the Minister’s accusation that ...

Is the hon. Gentleman not—I dare say inadvertently—making the point that underscores, rather than...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Order. The hon. Member for North Dorset (Simon Hoare) cannot give way and the hon. Member for Rho...

I am grateful, Madam Deputy Speaker.

Well, I do not think the hon. Gentleman will be allowed to make a very long speech, as we do not ...

If the hon. Gentleman does not like IPSO, how can he think that IMPRESS is any better? It is appr...

It is not my business to decide which of the two is better. The whole point is that we set up—thr...

Order. I am sure that in addition to the things that the hon. Gentleman says that he wants, he wi...

I would have finished already if you had not interrupted me, Madam Deputy Speaker.

I do not think that the hon. Gentleman meant that quite the way it sounded to the Chair.

I had one sentence left to say: the Conservatives promised it; the two Houses voted for it; it is...

We now need brevity from everyone.

I am grateful to be called to speak in this important debate. The changes that the Lords have bro...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

I hope the hon. and learned Lady will forgive me if I do not, for reasons of time.

Having b...

I always listen very carefully to the hon. Member for Tonbridge and Malling (Tom Tugendhat), and ...

There will be Members who feel that section 40 should be implemented immediately and others who f...

I am honoured to be called to speak in the debate, and I rise to talk about Lords amendment 15. I...

This short, impassioned debate about the freedom of the press has surely proved that a 90-minute ...

Every morning I go into my office and I open a number of documents. They are not nice reading. Th...

I beg to move, That this House agrees with Lords amendment 1.

With this we may take Lords amendments 2 to 10, 16 to 337 and 340 to 377.

The Investigatory Powers Bill will ensure that the police and the security and intelligence agenc...

May I put on record my appreciation for the way that the Minister listened to the representations...

I am grateful to my right hon. and learned Friend for his comments. Although it would be nice to ...

Like the Minister, I came to the Bill towards the end, but I am happy to claim credit just like h...

Does my hon. Friend agree that despite these reservations, the almost 300 amendments that the Gov...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his, as usual, very wise observation. There is no question bu...

It is not a question of being forced. The hon. Lady may recall that this measure was subject to a...

Right at the beginning of this debate, I made a point of acknowledging the very hard work of hon....

Perhaps I could pick up on some of the concerns of Liberty. We will all have had in our inboxes t...

I have no doubt that stakeholders will look at the amended Bill, and if it returns to us from the...

Privacy is an essential right in a democratic society. It is a basic civil right, protected by st...

Unlike the Minister and the shadow Home Secretary, but like the hon. and learned Member for South...

I am pleased to note that the hon. and learned Member for Edinburgh South West (Joanna Cherry) an...

I agree that the legislation is essential. The SNP believes that it is important to give the secu...

On the question of proportionality, does the hon. and learned Lady agree that the proposals must ...

I agree with the hon. Gentleman that at some point the House needs to look at the mass harvesting...

I listened very carefully to what the hon. and learned Lady said about the double lock. Surely th...

I do not accept that the Government have gone as far as some of us would have liked them to go on...

We are all keen to claim the credit, but let us not forget that the Government’s position from th...

Indeed, but the fine detail on the double lock—that is what enables the Solicitor General to get ...

Will the hon. and learned Lady give way?

I will make a little progress, and then give way again, because I do not want to take up too much...

The hon. and learned Lady will agree, first, that legal professional privilege has for the first ...

I read with interest the debates in the Lords about legal professional privilege. I noted careful...

This landmark legislation enables our security, intelligence and law enforcement services to cont...

I am pleased to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Fareham (Suella Fernandes) and to speak in s...

I wish to place on record our gratitude to the Labour party, the Liberal Democrats, the Scottish ...