Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they plan to implement the recommendation of David Anderson QC that communications data should not be intercepted without the authorisation of senior judges for warrants; and if so when.

As my Rt Honourable Friend, the Home Secretary, said in her statement on 11 June, the Government will need to give proper consideration to the recommendations made by David Anderson, QC, as well as those made by the Intelligence and Security Committee, before bringing forward legislative proposals in the autumn for pre-legislative scrutiny.