Telecommunications (Interception)

Ann Clwyd
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will extend the law to protect calls on mobile and cordless telephones from intrusive interception. [15792]

Mr. Straw
It is already an offence intentionally to intercept a communication in the course of its transmission over a public telecommunications system. I shall, in due course, introduce legislation to bring interception on private networks into the statutory framework.