TI am required by section 58(4) of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (as amended
by section 6 of the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act (DRIPA)) to make a report
to you with respect to the carrying out of my statutory functions as soon as practical after
the end of each year and, after the end of each half year. In March 2015 you laid my first
report for this year in Parliament which covered the period January-December 2014. I
now enclose my half-yearly report which, as well as providing the required update on the
implementation of DRIPA, also provides some timely detail about other work my office
has undertaken recently.