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Mon 6th Jun 2016
Investigatory Powers Bill
Commons Chamber

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Investigatory Powers Bill

Debate between Dominic Grieve and Alistair Carmichael
Report: 1st sitting: House of Commons
Monday 6th June 2016

(8 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Dominic Grieve Portrait Mr Grieve
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The right hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. The consequence of damaging national infrastructure would be to cause a severe economic shock to the United Kingdom. At the end of the day, the most persuasive argument of the lot was that listing economic wellbeing separately added transparency as to the purposes for which an investigatory power was being sought. We came to the conclusion that it would probably assist the judicial commissioners in their consideration of the necessity and proportionality of the warrant, precisely because it highlighted that it fell within a category in which economic wellbeing was present; it was therefore in practice likely to be subject to very detailed scrutiny. For all those reasons, we did not table a further amendment on that point.

Alistair Carmichael Portrait Mr Alistair Carmichael
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Given the lateness of the hour and the number of right hon. and hon. Members still wishing to catch your eye, Mr Speaker, I hope to confine my remarks principally to those amendments that stand in my name, but I would also like to pick up on one or two more general points.