Caroline Lucas – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Caroline Lucas on 2016-01-05.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Prime Minister’s Written Statement of 4 November 2015 on the Wilson Doctrine, whether measures are in place to prevent the security services reading an hon. Member’s correspondence by using unusual search terms likely to bring up parliamentary correspondence of particular hon. Members held as a result of the bulk collection of electronic data.

Mr John Hayes

The recent judgement of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal on the Wilson Doctrine details the safeguards in the Interception Code of Practice and the Security and Intelligence Agencies’ guidance for the protection of Parliamentarians’ communications.