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Investigatory Powers Bill

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

3.15 pm

The third interesting thing about the debate is that we have spent the entirety of it talking about the regulation of the press, when we are debating a Bill that is called the Investigatory Powers Bill and is about regulating the work of the security services. That work is very important. The Bill needs to be passed, as I understand it, by the end of the year.

I will not support Lords amendment 15. I will support the Government, for four clear reasons. First of all, as the Minister put it—I could not put it any better—it is the wrong amendment, to the wrong Bill, at the wrong time. This is not a Bill on press regulation. [Interruption.] I do not know where the hon. Member for Hackney North and Stoke Newington is getting her instructions from, but clearly having taken the phone call for which she has left the Chamber she will come back and no doubt elucidate the complex issue of Scottish and Westminster relations for us.

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Reference

616 c829 

Session

2016-17

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber
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