Investigatory Powers Bill

My Lords, we are satisfied that the speedy and effective establishment of the office of Investiga...

My Lords, Amendment 131A seeks to provide in the Bill for an investigatory powers commission in a...

Can the Minister reassure me that the circumstances that the Intelligence Services Commissioner f...

I fully believe that the amendments we have tabled will give inspectors the authority that is equ...

I am very grateful to the Minister. I am not sure that he is entirely reassured that the governme...

Moved by

Earl Howe

132: Clause 205, page 161, line 37, leave out paragraph (b)

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 132 and the others in the group. The government amendments in...

My Lords, I want to make reference to the amendment that we have in this group. Clause 205 provid...

My Lords, I add my voice to what my noble friend just said. Initially, in the list of government ...

My Lords, the Investigatory Powers Commissioner will be taking on the responsibilities of the thr...

I thank the Minister for his response. The spirit of the amendment, frankly, is that in the light...

Moved by

Lord Keen of Elie

133: Clause 205, page 162, line 7, at end insert—

“(...

My Lords, this group contains a variety of government amendments relating to oversight arrangemen...

My Lords, we welcome the amendments in this group. The provisions on delegation are indeed extrem...

Moved by

Earl Howe

134: Clause 207, page 164, line 23, at end insert “or the Investig...

Moved by

Baroness Hamwee

134A: Clause 207, page 164, line 26, at end insert—

“(...

My Lords, my noble friend Lord Paddick and I also have Amendments 178A, 178B and 178C in this gro...

I appreciate that I may be speaking prematurely since the Government have not moved their amendme...

I am obliged to the noble Lord, Lord Rosser, and will resist the temptation that he laid in my pa...

My Lords, with the leave of the House, I recognise that this is Report stage. I was aware, of cou...

Moved by

Earl Howe

135: Clause 207, page 164, line 40, leave out from “to” to end of ...

Moved by

Lord Paddick

137A: After Clause 208, insert the following new Clause—

...

My Lords, I shall also speak to Amendments 137B to 137F in my name and that of my noble friend La...

Can the noble Lord explain proposed new subsection 3(b)? Could the subject of a warrant challenge...

I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Rooker. I have absolutely no idea whether they could or cou...

I submit that they could. The lawyers will find a way to fill the courts with challenges from the...

To pose a legal challenge which is not based on any instance or evidence of the basis on which su...

Amendment 137A seeks to insert a provision into the Bill that would require the Investigatory Pow...

I am very grateful to the noble and learned Lord for his explanations, which I will take time and...

Moved by

Lord Keen of Elie

138: Clause 210, page 167, line 21, at end insert—

“...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 138 and the other amendments in this group, which would ensu...

My Lords, the noble and learned Lord may have answered one of my questions about Amendment 148. I...

Might I be permitted to respond briefly to the noble Baroness on these points? First, these amend...

Moved by

Earl Howe

139: Clause 210, page 167, line 22, leave out “Subsection (3) does...

Moved by

Earl Howe

140: Clause 211, page 168, line 35, after second “Commissioner” in...

Moved by

Earl Howe

141: Clause 212, page 169, line 33, at end insert—

“( ) info...

Moved by

Lord Janvrin

142: Clause 212, page 169, line 33, at end insert—

“( ) i...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 142 and 145 to Clause 212. These are in my name and I speak...

My Lords, as we have discussed in previous debates in this House and in the other place, the use ...

I thank the Minister for his helpful response. I take his point about the importance of the indep...

Moved by

Earl Howe

143: Clause 212, page 169, line 36, at end insert—

“( ) info...

Moved by

Lord Janvrin

145: Clause 212, page 170, line 33, at end insert—

“(11) ...

Moved by

Earl Howe

146: Clause 213, page 171, line 10, leave out “member of” and inse...

Moved by

Earl Howe

147: Clause 216, page 172, line 2, after “facilities” insert “and ...

Moved by

Earl Howe

150: Clause 218, page 172, line 19, leave out paragraph (c)

...

Moved by

Earl Howe

158: Schedule 7, page 231, line 13, at end insert—

“( ) the ...

Moved by

Baroness Hamwee

160: Schedule 7, page 231, line 26, after “profession” inser...

My Lords, Amendment 160 is a probing amendment, and the debate should be short. Schedule 7 provid...

My Lords, Amendment 160 would amend Schedule 7 to the Bill to require that every code of practice...

My Lords, that is helpful and it has enabled me to make my point, which may of course be one that...

Moved by

Earl Howe

161: Clause 220, page 173, leave out line 23

162: Clause 220...

Moved by

Earl Howe

163: Clause 221, page 175, line 33, after “system;” insert—

...

Moved by

Earl Howe

177: Clause 223, page 177, line 27, after “Part 4” insert “, natio...

Moved by

Earl Howe

178: After Clause 223, insert the following new Clause—

“Tec...

My Lords, I beg to move Amendment 178.

Moved by

Earl Howe

179: After Clause 223, insert the following new Clause—

“Mem...