How to avoid vomiting emergency legislation over the Secretary of State’s shoes (for a third time)

Whitehall officialI spent Monday afternoon in Parliament because medConfidential (my day job) had written to the Home Affairs select committee regarding the Home Office fishing around in medical records. When we’ve deciphered what the Home Secretary said in response to the question, I’m sure we’ll say something.

There are also some other things happening this week…

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posted: 15 Jul 2014

Amendments to the Dangerous Logs Act

New post here: How to avoid vomiting emergency legislation over the Secretary of State’s shoes (for a third time)

 

(Questions being added at the bottom).

Stopping the “Dangerous Logs Act” (or, the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Bill (DRIP), as it’s slightly more officially known) is likely to be hard, but it can be amended. I’ve started a short list, and suspect others will start publishing their own over the next few hours and days.

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posted: 10 Jul 2014