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Draft Investigatory Powers Bill Joint Committee - publications

Inquiry by the Draft Investigatory Powers Bill (Joint Committee), 26 November 2015 to 26 November 2015. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

Evidence sessions

  • 30 November 2015: Paul Lincoln, Director – National Security, OSCT, Home Office; Richard Alcock, Director, Communications Capability Development Programme, OSCT, Home Office; Lewis Neal, Director – Intelligence Policy, Foreign and Commonwealth Office; Simon York, Director of the Fraud Investigation Service, HMRC; Keith Bristow, Director General, National Crime Agency; Chris Farrimond, Deputy Director Intelligence Collection, National Crime Agency; Richard Berry, Assistant Chief Constable, National Police Chiefs’ Council
  • 2 December 2015: Sir Mark Waller, Intelligence Services Commissioner; Lord Judge, Chief Surveillance Commissioner, Clare Ringshaw-Dowle, Chief Surveillance Inspector, Sir Stanley Burnton, Interception of Communications Commissioner, and Jo Cavan, Head of the Interception of Communications Commissioner’s Office; David Anderson QC, Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, and Professor Michael Clarke, Retiring Director of the Royal United Services Institute
  • 7 December 2015: Professor Ross Anderson, Professor of Security Engineering, University of Cambridge, Dr Paul Bernal, Lecturer in Information Technology, Intellectual Property and Media Law, University of East Anglia, Professor Sir David Omand GCB, King’s College London, and Professor Mark Ryan, Professor of Computer Security, University of Birmingham; The Rt Hon the Lord Blunkett, and Rt Hon Owen Paterson MP
  • 9 December 2015: BT Security, Virgin Media, and Sky; Internet Service Providers Association, Andrews & Arnold Ltd; Open Rights Group, Liberty, Privacy International, and Big Brother Watch
  • 14 December 2015: Society of Editors, The Law Society, The Law Society of Scotland, and the National Union of Journalists; Vodafone, O2 Telefonica, EE, and 3 (at 5.00pm).
  • 16 December 2015: Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre, and National Crime Agency; David Davis MP, and Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (at 5.00pm); Peter Carter QC, Martin Chamberlain QC, Matthew Ryder QC, and Graham Smith, solicitor (at 5.45pm).
  • 21 December 2015: Suzy Lamplagh Trust, NSPCC, and Amnesty International; Professor Bill Buchanan, Head, Centre for Distributed Computing, Networks and Security, Edinburgh Napier University, Eric King, Visiting Lecturer at Queen Mary, University of London, and Erka Koivunen, Cyber Security Advisor, F-Secure Corporation (at 3.00pm); Henry Jackson Society and Policy Exchange (at 3.45pm).
  • 6 January 2016: Christopher Graham, Information Commissioner; Jesper Lund, Chairman, IT-Political Association of Denmark, and William E. Binney, formerly Technical Director of the United States National Security Agency; Sir Bruce Robertson, New Zealand Commissioner of Security Warrants
  • 13 January 2016: Rt Hon Theresa May MP, Home Secretary