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min answer › date of answer	2014-11-17
min date	2016-03-24
answer › date of answer	2016-04-11
uin	32567
max answer › question first answered	2017-02-15T15:06:57.093Z

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487087

registered interest

date

24/03/2016

answering body

Home Office

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Home Office

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Immigration Officers: Surveillance

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25259

	pref label	House of Commons

question text

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 21 March 2016 to Question 31078, on immigration officers, what policy, guidance or code of practice is provided to immigration officers carrying out equipment interference.

tabling member constituency

Hammersmith

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Andy Slaughter

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32567

answer

is ministerial correction

date of answer

11/04/2016

answer text

The Office of Surveillance Commissioners (OSC) provides independent oversight of the use of property interference powers by law enforcement, including immigration officers. The Police Act 1997 was amended in 2013 to enable immigration officers to carry out property interference. The OSC regularly inspects law enforcement use of the power and scrutinises all individual property interference authorisations. A statutory code of practice for covert surveillance and property interference which can be found at:https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/384975/Covert_Surveillance_Property_Interrefernce_web__2_.pdfapplies to all agencies with property interference powers.The Investigatory Powers Bill will provide enhanced safeguards for the use of equipment interference, including the requirement that equipment interference warrants are subject to the double-lock authorisation safeguard. The Bill will also create a new and more powerful Investigatory Powers Commissioner who will keep the use of this important power under close and regular review. A new Equipment Interference Code of Practice was published in draft alongside the Investigatory Powers Bill. This Code will provide further guidance on the use of equipment interference powers to all relevant agencies.

answering member constituency

Old Bexley and Sidcup

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James Brokenshire

grouped question UIN

32566

question first answered

11/04/2016 16:15:09

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1530

	label	Biography information for James Brokenshire

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1516

	label	Biography information for Andy Slaughter