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HANSARDGovernment Business: Messaging ServicesNo, it is not, my Lords, but they are required then to take that back to their officials and make sure that it is officially noted.31 Mar 2022HANSARDGovernment Business: Messaging ServicesNo, I do not think so, my Lords.31 Mar 2022HANSARDGovernment Business: Messaging ServicesI cannot give the noble Baroness any further information apart from the fact that there are appropriate arrangements and guidance in place for the management and security of all…31 Mar 2022HANSARDGovernment Business: Messaging ServicesI thank my noble friend for that question, but, for obvious national security reasons and as I have mentioned earlier, it is not appropriate for me to discuss security matters in…31 Mar 2022HANSARDGovernment Business: Messaging ServicesMy Lords, the noble Baroness has a point, because the Cabinet Office has kept the guidance from 2013, which is a long time ago and things have moved on. However, it has kept it…31 Mar 2022HANSARDGovernment Business: Messaging ServicesI do not agree with the noble Lord. Let us make it clear: in 2013, the Cabinet Office issued guidance to departments that covered the use of private email accounts and any other…31 Mar 2022HANSARDGovernment Business: Messaging ServicesI thank the noble Baroness for that. She is right that all Ministers and officials are aware of the guidance on the use of communications channels. As with all guidance, we keep…31 Mar 2022HANSARDGovernment Business: Messaging ServicesMy Lords, there are appropriate arrangements and guidance in place for the management of all electronic communications. Ministers will have informal conversations from time to…31 Mar 2022HANSARDGovernment Business: Messaging ServicesMy Lords, Members of Parliament get the appropriate guidance when they become MPs, but my noble friend’s idea that all political parties should start discussions about the…31 Mar 2022HANSARDBuilding Safety BillI thank noble Lords for their support for these important amendments —I will write to the noble Lord on his question; I do not have it in my pack. This shows that, throughout the…29 Mar 2022HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill29 Mar 2022HANSARDBuilding Safety BillMy Lords, I open this group by introducing a number of technical amendments tabled to strengthen the Bill. Included within this group are amendments that simply update the…29 Mar 2022HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill29 Mar 2022HANSARDBuilding Safety BillMy Lords, I thank noble Lords for this short debate on these amendments. I am very pleased that most of them, if not all of them, have been welcomed, because I think they will…29 Mar 2022HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill29 Mar 2022HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill29 Mar 2022HANSARDBuilding Safety BillMy Lords, we now come to the final debate on Report of this Bill, and I will speak to a number of government amendments on construction products. Noble Lords will be familiar with…29 Mar 2022HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill29 Mar 2022HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill29 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillI take note of that and will make sure that my noble friend understands the unpicking of all of that. I reassure the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, that this flexibility does not…28 Mar 2022