Written evidence to be reported to the House
Counter-Terrorism Bill
4:00 pm
Ben Wallace (Shadow Minister, Scotland; Lancaster and Wyre, Conservative)
I want to ask two questions. The first follows on from the previous question about interception. When you say that you are a proponent of interception and the use of intercepts, is that as defined under the Terrorism Act 2000, covering post, e-mail and telephone, but not surveillance? There is often a misconception that bugs in rooms, listening devices or cameras are in fact not considered intercept as defined in previous law. Or are you saying that both surveillance and intercept should be admissible?