Question follow-through · 57208

Electronic Surveillance

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many technical capability notices issued under s.253 of the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 have been complied with in each year.

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 4 Jun 2025
Target answer date: 9 Jun 2025
Answer: 9 Jun 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

4 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many technical capability notices issued under s.253 of the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 have been complied with in each year.
9 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Jun 2025
Answer published
For reasons of national security, it has been a long-standing position that the Government does not confirm or deny compliance of operators given a notice under the Investigatory Powers Act 2016. We also do not publish the number of technical capability n...

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