§ Mr. CohenTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will introduce an amendment to the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Bill to prohibit the subsequent disclosure of communications data which have legitimately been obtained under the powers granted by the Bill, by virtue of the application of the non-disclosure provisions of the Data Protection Act 1998 or by the application of powers in other legislation which could result in statutory demands for communications data; and if he will make a statement. [129210]
§ Mr. StrawWe do not consider it necessary to amend the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Bill further as my hon. Friend suggests. The law enforcement, security and intelligence agencies are already subject to restrictions on the degree to which they may share data by the terms428W Certificates also need to be available before enforced subject access can be made an offence. The target date for making those certificates available is July 2002.