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Interception of Communications and Intelligence Services: Annual Reports

My right honourable friend the Prime Minister has today laid before both Houses the annual reports for 2004 of the Interception of Communications Commissioner, the right honourable Sir Swinton Thomas, and the Intelligence Services Commissioner, the right honourable Lord Brown of Eaton-Under-Heywood. Some sensitive information has been excluded from the reports of the Interception of Communications Commissioner and the Intelligence Services Commissioner in accordance with Section 58(7) and 60(5) of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act. We are grateful to the commissioners for their reports and the work that has gone into preparing them.