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The Lord President of the Council (Baroness Amos): I am pleased to announce that my right honourable friend the Prime Minister (Tony Blair) has approved the appointment of the right honourable Sir Peter Gibson as Intelligence Services Commissioner under the terms of Section 59 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000. The appointment will commence on 1 April 2006 and will run for three years.
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The Prime Minister (Mr. Gordon Brown): In accordance with Section 59 of the same Act, I have also re-appointed the right hon. Sir Peter Gibson as Intelligence Services Commissioner from 1 April 2009 to 31 March 2012.
- ↑ "Treatment of Detainees". Commons Hansard, Session 2010–12, Volume 513, Part 27, Column 176. Retrieved 9 June 2013. "The Prime Minister (Mr David Cameron): While there is no evidence that any British officer was directly engaged in torture in the aftermath of 9/11, there are questions over the degree to which British officers were working with foreign security services who were treating detainees in ways they should not have done. [...] So we will have a single, authoritative examination of all these issues. [...] It will look at whether Britain was implicated in the improper treatment of detainees, held by other countries, that may have occurred in the aftermath of 9/11. [...] I have asked the right hon. Sir Peter Gibson [...] to lead the inquiry." The other members of the three-member inquiry team were Janet Paraskeva and Peter Riddell.
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The Prime Minister (Mr David Cameron): In accordance with section 59 of the regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000, I have agreed to appoint the right hon. Sir Mark Waller as Intelligence Services Commissioner from 1 January 2011 to 31 December 2013.
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