The legislation will include not only the expected snooper's charter, enabling the tracking of everyone's web and social media use, but also moves to strengthen the security services' warranted powers for the bulk interception of the content of communications.
"It's got nothing to do with this government, which has acted very properly in terms of saying charter renewal would start after the election," Purnell told the Royal Television Society London conference on Tuesday.
We've flown here on a 10-seater charter plane as part of a tour organized by the Hotel Tower in Georgetown, Guyana's capital city.
The B Team, which will be launched in a live online broadcast to more than 200 gatherings in 60 cities around the world, will be holding community events over the next few months to get input from stakeholders and is encouraging people to submit their views on a new charter for better business at www.bteam.org.org
The Austrian ratification - opposed by just one vote - and the strong support from the Slovak parliament, which voted 116-27 to endorse the charter, gave EU backers a boost as they try to gain support ahead of the May 29 referendum in France.
Belarus is a charter member of a Russia-led customs union, which the Kremlin hopes to develop into an alternative EU for former Soviet states.
"But, along the way, there were people from all parties who made the connection between their dissatisfaction with the election coverage and the fact that the next government will set the licence fee and the terms of the royal charter.
But the cities insist their agenda is cross-party, and they have commissioned research from right-leaning thinktank ResPublica, which will be published alongside their charter next month.
The largest demonstration will be outside parliament where barristers and solicitors – many in wigs and gowns – will assemble and then march on the Ministry of Justice to hand in a modern copy of the Magna Carta, the 13th-century charter which first imposed legal restraints on executive power.
Essex University points out that it is given green ratings for its code of practice on freedom of speech, university charter and other key policies, and says it is "absurd" that it is given a red ranking "for providing guidance to our community about avoiding homophobic behaviour, in line with the Equality Act 2010.
How does the greater energy security the Queen promised us square with a Nimbies' charter on planning consent for unpopular wind farms?
