The Home Secretary has warned that terrorists could attack the UK at any time and that Britain's armed forces could be deployed in the event of a Paris-style attack.
Theresa May added that the police and security services needed powers provided in the blocked Communications Data Bill to protect the public and save lives.
She insisted the legislation was not a bid to allow the Government to "snoop" on the content of emails but to allow the police and security services to find out who was contacting whom.
But her comments to MPs come days after Britain's most senior policeman said an attack on Britain is "unlikely".
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe said he was confident the police and security services already have the powers needed to keep people safe.
In an exclusive interview with Sky News he said the public should remain calm.
"I don't think (an attack) is likely but I think we all know it's a possibility," he said.
"The threat level is severe and so therefore that means a terrorist attack is possible.
"We do our best together with the security services to make sure the terrorists don't succeed and that we keep people safe. To date, that's broadly what we've been able to achieve."
In a statement to the House of Commons, Ms May said: "This is not - as I have heard it said - 'letting the Government snoop on your emails'.
"It is allowing the police and the security services, under a tightly regulated and controlled regime, to find out the 'who, where, when and how' of a communication but not its content.
"(This would allow police to) prove and disprove alibis, identify associations between suspects, and tie suspects and victims to specific locations.
"It is too soon to say for certain, but it is highly probable that communications data was used in the Paris attacks to locate the suspects and establish the links between the two attacks.
"Quite simply ... if we want the police and the security services to protect the public and save lives, they need this capability."
Two days ago David Cameron said that, to help the security serivces monitor terrorist communications, he would move to ban encrypted messaging services such as WhatsApp and iMessage if he wins the general election in May.
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