Interception of Communications

HC Deb 12 December 1988 vol 143 c463W

Mr. Randall

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what criteria he uses in assessing whether a warrant is necessary in the interests of national security for the purposes of section 2(2)(a) of the Interception of Communications Act 1985.

Mr. Hurd

These matters are approached in the way set out when the 1985 Act was before Parliament—12 March 1985, col. 151-258—and in the preceding White Paper of February 1985 (Cm. 9438).