RIP Bill just went through / BBC News: 'Snooping Bill technically inept'

[Caspar Bowden]

> >Apparently, RIP just went through (unamended) in the Commons...   :o(
>
> From reading Hansard, the Bill went through the Commons yesterday
> evening un-further-amended. In other words, all the Lords amendments
> were accepted, none thrown out, no further Commons amendments.
>
> Were you hoping for something else from yesterday's proceedings?

For info
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199900/cmhansrd/cm000726/debtext/
00726-27.htm#00726-27_spnew5

Mr. Simon Hughes (Southwark, North and Bermondsey):
...
When the Bill left the House of Lords, I asked my colleagues what remained
for us to do to make the Bill even better. I was told that there were three
outstanding matters--overlapping warrants, tipping off and authorisation
when the key was converted into plain text. My senior researcher, Steve
Bradford, my hon. Friend the Member for Hallam, Lord McNally and I talked to
the Clerks, but found, by one of the paradoxes of this place, that those are
the very matters on which we were technically unable to table amendments--we
can amend only what has been sent to us as Lords amendments.

That is why there are no amendments to the Lords amendments, and I am sure
that the hon. Member for North-East Hertfordshire and his team have been
through the same process. I make no complaint, but we are limited to
considering only what has been sent back from the Lords, all of which
improves the Bill.