Communications Data and Interception

Part of Business of the House – in the House of Commons at 11:30 am on 10 July 2014.

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Photo of Nick Herbert Nick Herbert Conservative, Arundel and South Downs 11:30, 10 July 2014

I welcome these proposals. Is my right hon. Friend aware that one of her predecessors as Home Secretary, Sir Robert Peel, faced strong opposition in this House to the creation of a modern police force on civil liberties grounds? Peel replied that liberty does not consist in having our home raided by an organised gang of thieves. Does not any responsible Government now have to recognise that technology, while enabling the fight against crime, has also presented serious criminals and terrorists with new opportunities to commit crime and we must respond to that?