Clause 7
Counter-Terrorism Bill
12:45 pm
Dominic Grieve (Shadow Attorney General, Law Officers; Beaconsfield, Conservative)
I had not intended to intervene, but I want to clarify something that the Minister said that perhaps I misunderstood. I assumed that the provision was designed essentially to ensure that, if documents were returned, the police had no power to retain copies. I assumed that that was what the Minister intended and what the provision achieved. The only power to produce copies seemed to me to be in the investigative process of downloading what appears to be on computers. As long as that is so, I have nothing more to worry about.