And the government is consulting on how in future the ISC should be appointed and should report to parliament - with, where possible, hearings in public, a strengthened capacity for investigations, reports subject to more parliamentary debate and greater
transparency over appointments to the committee.
Over the last twenty years, there has been increasing criticism of a lack of
transparency in the system of
appointment: the criticism has not been levelled at candidates considered to be unqualified, but rather at the way in which candidates were chosen and then announced — given the increasing importance of the Supreme Court's decisions, a number of political and academic critics argued that the traditional system was flawed.