§ Mr. MaplesTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many complaints were made to the(a) Security Services Tribunal and (b) Intelligence 496W Services Tribunal in each of the last five years; and how many complaints to each tribunal were upheld in each year. [161779]
§ Mr. BlunkettThe information requested is available in the Annual Reports of the Security Service and Intelligence Services Commissioners that have been laid before Parliament. For convenience, the information is set out in the table.
Number of complaints Investigatory Powers Tribunal Security Service Tribunal Intelligence Services Tribunal 1999 — 22 5 11 22 7 2000 (October to December) (to end September) (to end September) 2001 91 — — 2002 130 — — 2003 Not yet published — — The Security Service and Intelligence Services Tribunals were subsumed into the Investigatory Powers Tribunal in 2000 under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000. The figures for the Investigatory Powers Tribunal are not separated out and include complaints on interception of communications. No complaint to the tribunals has been upheld.