Investigatory Powers Bill

The purpose of the Liberal Democrats’ amendment seems to be that there is a speedier review of th...

My Lords, the questions that have been asked are interesting. Times are changing, as is the natur...

My Lords, I am not sure how useful this intervention will be, but it occurs to me that when the G...

My Lords, I had the privilege of sitting on the Joint Committee on the Bill and on the Joint Comm...

My Lords, as the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, explained, Amendment 234A deals with the review of ...

My Lords, before I respond, I wonder whether the Minister can tell the Committee when it is expec...

I do not have that information. It is of course possible that different parts of the Bill will co...

I am grateful to the Minister for his response, and I am sure he will understand the importance o...

Moved by

Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb

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My Lords, the amendment seeks to put right a government oversight: there is no definition of nati...

My Lords, we have a great deal of sympathy with the amendment moved by the noble Baroness, Lady J...

My Lords, without boring the Committee with too much about human rights, I will explain my proble...

My Lords, I very strongly support what has just been said by the noble Lord, Lord Lester. I respe...

My Lords, what if we were to leave out the last part of the amendment,

“against force or th...

My Lords, I have not spoken often on this Bill but felt impelled to say that what the noble Lord,...

My Lords, given what has been said, I have little to add. I was born in Germany after the war, wh...

My Lords, the arguments for and against a definition of national security have been considered at...

Why was the phrase “economic well-being” included as a rather loose term?

I do not think I would characterise it as a loose term. The meaning of “economic well-being” is w...

I hope that I am not out of order in suggesting that the words “economic well-being” are in Artic...

My point is simply that there was a recommendation that it was unnecessarily confusing. Therefore...

It was to make it clear that economic well-being is a very distinct facet of national security.