All 2 Peter Kyle contributions to the Investigatory Powers Act 2016

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Thu 14th Apr 2016
Investigatory Powers Bill (Sixth sitting)
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Thu 28th Apr 2016
Investigatory Powers Bill (Thirteenth sitting)
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Committee Debate: 13th sitting: House of Commons & Committee Debate: 13th sitting: House of Commons

Investigatory Powers Bill (Sixth sitting) Debate

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Department: Attorney General

Investigatory Powers Bill (Sixth sitting)

Peter Kyle Excerpts
Committee Debate: 6th sitting: House of Commons
Thursday 14th April 2016

(8 years, 6 months ago)

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Robert Buckland Portrait The Solicitor General
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But is it? We have got to be absolutely clear. None of us would want that type of offence to fall outwith any of the criteria in these provisions—I am sure that would be the case.

Peter Kyle Portrait Peter Kyle (Hove) (Lab)
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Proportionality was a central part of the discussion on Second Reading, and we received many reassurances from the Government. My hon. and learned Friend the Member for Holborn and St Pancras has made a powerful point about the use of these powers in minor crimes. The Bill lowers the threshold to

“damage to a person’s physical or mental health”

or the potential thereof. Will the Minister tell us what crime or potential crime does not pose damage to a person’s physical or mental health, or have the potential thereof?

Robert Buckland Portrait The Solicitor General
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Of course, there are plenty of offences that do not involve violence or the threat of violence, such as fraud, although I understand that the potential consequences of some fraud can cause stress. May I reassure him that the test of necessity and proportionality in clause 53(7) remains very much at the centre of everything? I would not want him to be misled into thinking, as has perhaps been suggested by some of his Front Bench colleagues, that this is a free-for-all; far from it.

Investigatory Powers Bill (Thirteenth sitting) Debate

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Department: Home Office

Investigatory Powers Bill (Thirteenth sitting)

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Committee Debate: 13th sitting: House of Commons
Thursday 28th April 2016

(8 years, 6 months ago)

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John Hayes Portrait Mr Hayes
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I am a little hurt, frankly. I regard the caricature that the hon. and learned Lady has painted of my approach to all of these considerations as—I would not say insulting—hurtful. Far from the stony-faced zealot that I think she seeks to portray me as, I am the very model of this listening Government.

Peter Kyle Portrait Peter Kyle (Hove) (Lab)
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The Minister demonstrates a listening Government in action by giving way to me and I am extremely grateful to him for doing so. With regard to clause 196(6), which would be removed by the amendment, Sir Stanley Burnton, the expert witness, said:

“We wonder what the function of clause 196(6) is. It is either telling a judge the obvious or it is a big stick to wave at the judge, to say, ‘You have to approve this because if you don’t, you’ll be jeopardising the success of an intelligence operation.’”––[Official Report, Investigatory Powers Public Bill Committee, 24 March 2016; c. 74.]

Would the Minister care to comment on that point?

John Hayes Portrait Mr Hayes
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Now the Committee is getting exciting; it often happens, as one gets deep into consideration. I must say that the hon. Gentleman—unsurprisingly, given his reputation, but in a most welcome way—has illustrated a diligence in the consideration of the detail of this measure, which does him great credit.

However, having been nice about the hon. Gentleman, now let me be less nice. The hon. and learned Lady wants to weaken public interest; he wants to take out a whole chunk of the Bill—

Peter Kyle Portrait Peter Kyle
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The witness did.

None Portrait The Chair
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Order.