the Earl of Northesk: My Lords, I apologise to the Minister, but would he confirm that in the first instance the fees will be exempt simply for airside workers at Manchester and London City airports, rather than across the piece?
the Earl of Northesk: My Lords, I have it in mind that the latest cost summary projected over the 10-year period from when it was issued is that 95 million ID cards would be issued. That projection is whatever that projection is, but it is something like half as much again of the population of the UK. Therefore, what faith can we have in costs if they are based on a scenario where one and a half times the...
the Earl of Northesk: My Lords, I declare an interest as an unpaid adviser to the Enterprise Privacy Group, Privacy International and 80/20 Thinking. I have little to add to what has already been said but I invite the Minister to comment on three points. First, can he confirm that the ITAO standard requires no more than a digitised impression of a biometric fingerprint—that is to say, that the whole of the ID...
the Earl of Northesk: My Lords, this has been an excellent debate and I thank all noble Lords who participated. I genuinely enjoyed all the contributions, including that of the Minister, although I am perhaps a little disappointed that, in relation to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation report, he may have resorted to shooting the messenger because of dissatisfaction with the message. As the debate has progressed, two...
the Earl of Northesk: My Lords, in recent times it has become customary at this point in our proceedings to offer up some sort of anecdote or witticism as a means of buying time before launching forth into the body of one's text. My limited oratorical steers skills do not stretch that far, so I merely confine myself to the hope that it is neither the subject matter of today's debate nor the fact that I have risen...
the Earl of Northesk: My Lords, will the Minister clarify one point? He just said that one of the purposes of the directive is to enable the Government to codify retained data. I am sorry, but if you want to codify retained data, you must access it. Will he explain precisely what he means by "codifying" the retained data?
the Earl of Northesk: My Lords, I was loath to intervene on the Minister during his winding-up remarks because he has had quite enough interventions. However, can he answer one straightforward question that I actually put to him in my speech: do these regulations either implicitly or explicitly authorise the use of DPI technology to retain communications data? It is a very straightforward question.
the Earl of Northesk: My Lords, I rise to support my noble friend's amendment. In so doing, I declare my various interests in this field, as an unpaid adviser to the Enterprise Privacy Group, Privacy International and 80/20 Thinking. I do not have all that much to add to my noble friend's excellent and devastating critique, but I should like to reinforce one or two of the issues to which she referred and probe the...
the Earl of Northesk: To ask Her Majesty's Government whether any warrant was executed on or behalf of the Secretary of State for the Home Department under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 in October, November or December 2008 authorising the interception of communications within the Palace of Westminster in relation to investigations into leaks transmitted to a member of either House of Parliament;...
the Earl of Northesk: To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the Cabinet Office or the Home Office supplied the Metropolitan Police with a list of the instances of considerable damage that had been caused to national security referred to in the letter from Mr C Wright.
the Earl of Northesk: To ask Her Majesty's Government under what authority the police may access the parliamentary computer system and examine Members' emails or close email accounts.
the Earl of Northesk: My Lords, I thank the Minister for that Answer. Is it not the case that the suspension and/or closure of an e-mail account constitutes an interception of communications under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act? On the particular case of Mr Green, can the noble Lord explain how his account was suspended other than by means of access through the main parliamentary server?
the Earl of Northesk: asked Her Majesty's Government: What proportion of the central bid made to HM Treasury as part of the Government's 2007 Comprehensive Spending Review on behalf of the security and intelligence agencies is allocated to development of and ongoing expenditure on the Scope 1 and 2 projects.
the Earl of Northesk: asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether development of the Scope 2 project for the security and intelligence agencies has been suspended; if so, why; and how much the project has cost to date.
the Earl of Northesk: asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether adequate and appropriate procedures are in place to prevent data loss of national security and intelligence information from within the Scope project; and Whether security of Phases 1 and 2 of the Scope project, in terms of national security and intelligence data, is sufficiently robust.
the Earl of Northesk: asked Her Majesty's Government: How many grants they have given to telephone companies and internet service providers to assist them in the voluntary retention of data under Section 106 of the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001; and what has been the total annual value of such grants in each year since 2001.
the Earl of Northesk: asked Her Majesty's Government: In light of the transposition of the data retention directive (2006/24/EC), as applied to telephone networks, into United Kingdom law by secondary legislation (SI 2007/2199), what plans they have to make similar provision in respect of the directive's application to the internet; and, if there are no plans for such implementation, how they intend to give legal...
the Earl of Northesk: My Lords, can the Minister explain how the Home Office advice to Phorm found its way onto the cryptome.org website? More broadly, the Minister referred to IMP: can he explain what the interaction between IMP and the SCOPE programme will be?
the Earl of Northesk: asked Her Majesty's Government: What are the aims of the Home Office's interception modernisation programme.
the Earl of Northesk: asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether the current Comprehensive Spending Review allocation contains any financing for the Home Office's interception modernisation programme; and, if so, how much.