Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the then Prime Minister’s Written Statement of 4 November 2015, Official Report, HCWS291, on the Wilson doctrine, what the Government’s policy is on the Wilson doctrine.

The Wilson Doctrine is unchanged from the position set out in the Prime Minister's predecessor's Written Statement of 4 November 2015 (HCWS291).

Since the then Prime Minister’s statement to the House in 2015, the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 was commenced which created statutory protections for communications of Members of Relevant legislatures through the “triple lock” process, set out at sections 26 and 99 of the Act.