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[Richard Clayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]

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Bizarrely, this PQ is labelled "Communications Interception" when it
fact it relates to Part II...   this wouldn't be the Home Office trying
to confuse us would it ??

<URL:http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmhansrd/cm041109
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Hansard 9 Nov 2004, Column 607W

Communications Interception

Norman Baker: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how
many applications submitted by public authorities other than MI5, MI6
and GCHQ for authorisation for direct surveillance and the use of covert
human intelligence sources were (a) approved and (b) rejected under
sections 28 and 29 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000
for each year since the inception of the Act. [188050]

Caroline Flint: Numbers of authorisations granted for the carrying out
of directed surveillance (under section 28 of the Regulation of
Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA)) or for the conduct or the use of
covert human intelligence source (under section 29) are published in
the Annual Reports of the Chief Surveillance Commissioner. 

Sections 28 and 29 of RIPA came into force on 25 January 2000. The
published figures cover include authorisations granted under sections 28
and 29 of RIPA, within law enforcement agencies since 1 April 2001 and
for other public authorities since 1 April 2003. Details of all
authorisations granted within law enforcement agencies and other public
authorities have been available to the Surveillance Commissioners for
inspection since 2000 but only collected centrally since April 2003. 

Section 28 (directed surveillance)

          Law enforcement(15)  Other public authorities  
2000-01         (16)                    (16)  
2001-02         27,800                  (16)  
2002-03         26,400                  (16)  
2003-04         26,986                  6,398  


(15) The National Criminal Intelligence Service, the National Crime
Squad, the Scottish Drug Enforcement Agency, HM Customs and Excise and
police forces.
(16) Not held centrally.

Section 29 (covert human intelligence source)

          Law enforcement       Other public authorities  
2000-01         (17)                    (17)  
2001-02         5,400                   (17) 
2002-03         5,900                   (17)  
2003-04         5,907                   273  

(17) Not held centrally

Numbers of applications put to persons entitled to grant authorisations
under section 28 and 29 of RIPA that have not resulted in the grant of
authorisation are not collected centrally. 

As the exercise of powers under sections 28 and 29 of RIPA is kept under
review by the Intelligence Services Commissioner and not the Chief
Surveillance Commissioner, the number of authorisations made by the
intelligence services are excluded from the figures published by the
Chief Surveillance Commissioner. 

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richard                                              Richard Clayton

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.         Benjamin Franklin

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