Report of the Interception of Communications Commissioner - July 2016
Annex B: Total Items of Communications Data under Chapter 2 of Part 1
of RIPA by Public Authority
This Annex details the total items of data approved by each public authority in 2015.
Public authorities have only been required to provide statistical details about the number of items of data since 25 March 2015
when the revised Code of Practice came into force. Consequently, some public authorities have only been able to give the total
items of data approved from the 1 April 2015 (three quarters of the year), rather than from the 1 January (the full four quarters
of the year). Where this is the case, and in order to provide comparable figures the three quarter totals have been ‘projected’
to make up the difference simply by multiplying it by 1.333r. Our analysis shows that the use of these powers remains constant
throughout the year and so we are confident that the projections provide a more accurate picture of use than the limited
statistics of previous years. Any statistics that have been projected are shown in red and the three quarter figure reported by the
public authority is displayed in the adjacent column.
Partial figure reported
01/04/15-31/12/15
Total items of data (projected)
The Intelligence Services
Government Communications
Headquarters (GCHQ)
Secret Intelligence Service (SIS)
Security Service
4,268
3201
531
38,317
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Grand Total
43,116
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