Regulation of Investigatory Powers

HC Deb 07 November 2002 vol 392 cc847-8W

Simon Hughes

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for Coventry, South of 4 July,Official Report, col. 533–4W, what form the consultation on the extension of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 will take. [73216]

Mr. Blunkett

I will be publishing a consultation paper around the turn of the year and will consider responses before bringing forward proposals in relation to any additional public authorities under Chapter 11 of Part 1 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA).