HC Deb 10 July 2000 vol 353 c428W
Mr. Alan Williams

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the PFI contracts entered into by his Department, indicating(a) their dates of commencement, (b) their value, (c) if they have been subject to refinancing and (d) if his Department has a claw-back entitlement to share in savings arising from refinancing. [129051]

Mr. Straw

The latest information available to us is as follows:

of the Data Protection Act 1998 or under the statutory restrictions placed on them by the Security Service Act 1989 and the Intelligence Services Act 1994.

The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Bill substantially enhances the existing safeguards which surround the obtaining of communications data by placing on a statutory basis proper levels of authorisation, considerations of necessity and proportionality and independent oversight by the Interception Commissioner.