Debates between Victoria Atkins and Andrew Murrison during the 2015-2017 Parliament

Investigatory Powers Bill

Debate between Victoria Atkins and Andrew Murrison
Tuesday 1st November 2016

(8 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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My hon. Friend is right to say so.

Does the Minister accept that the only objection to this measure that the Government are putting forward is that it is in the wrong place? That appears to be a fairly slim argument. Can he assure people like me who are perhaps wavering on this matter that the terms of reference of the consultation that the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport announced earlier will be sufficiently robust and give a steer on the Government’s good intentions on section 40, because then we might be tempted to be a little more patient in the hope that that consultation will result in an outcome that makes Baroness Hollins’s amendments redundant?