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HANSARDTelecommunications (Security) Bill (Second sitting)Q To clarify that point, you are happy with the existing level of scrutiny and involvement of the security services in the development of the framework and the review of the…14 Jan 2021HANSARDTelecommunications (Security) Bill (Second sitting)Q Thank you, Mr McCabe, and I thank our witnesses for joining us. I started out in telecoms in 1987, as a hardware engineer. Since then, as you have indicated, our hardware sector…14 Jan 2021HANSARDTelecommunications (Security) Bill (First sitting)Q Finally, with regard to having only two vendors for the mobile network for a number of years, can I ask two questions? I think that there has been a little discussion about…14 Jan 2021HANSARDTelecommunications (Security) Bill (Second sitting)A very good point.14 Jan 2021HANSARDTelecommunications (Security) Bill (First sitting)Q Thanks very much for joining us. We have heard that open RAN will not be mature for another eight years. Do you agree with that assessment? In that case, as you have outlined,…14 Jan 2021HANSARDTelecommunications (Security) Bill (First sitting)Q I ask these questions on behalf of Catherine West. Vodafone runs networks across Europe, and so does Three, whose owner is headquartered in Hong Kong, and O2, which is owned by…14 Jan 2021HANSARDTelecommunications (Security) Bill (Second sitting)Q To follow up briefly on that, I think what you are saying is that there might be a contradiction between the desire to have a more diverse supply chain, with more smaller…14 Jan 2021HANSARDTelecommunications (Security) Bill (First sitting)You make a very good point, Mr Hollobone. I am going to try to keep my engineering and technical interest as much to the back as possible. I am the shadow Minister for digital,…14 Jan 2021HANSARDTelecommunications (Security) Bill (First sitting)Q It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Hollobone. I want to start by thanking, as well as the witnesses, the members of the Committee, the officials and the staff of…14 Jan 2021HANSARDTelecommunications (Security) Bill (Second sitting)As I said, I am a massive fan of standards development. I have worked in the area, with the ITU. I agree that it is essential to enable open RAN and diversification. The…14 Jan 2021HANSARDTelecommunications (Security) Bill (Second sitting)Q I am the shadow Minister for the Bill. Let me start by welcoming you and thanking you very much for your expert input. I particularly welcome you, Dr Bennett, for your expertise…14 Jan 2021HANSARDTelecommunications (Security) Bill (Second sitting)Q Can I just say that I had been a fan of the British Standards Institute for decades and am a more recent convert to RUSI? I start with a question to Mr Parton on behalf of…14 Jan 2021HANSARDTelecommunications (Security) Bill (Second sitting)Q I would be interested to hear more about what is out of scope, because my understanding was that the Bill covered all aspects of telecoms security. Julius Robson: Just to make…14 Jan 2021HANSARDTelecommunications (Security) Bill (Second sitting)Thank you. That is very helpful. That makes me think that there are security issues arising from, for example, having our cloud infrastructure dominated by one vendor, such as…14 Jan 2021HANSARDTelecommunications (Security) Bill (Second sitting)Q I did have a question. I also wanted to say that I think Dr Bennett’s point is about transparency, but also about anticipation, responsiveness and a fast response regime. My…14 Jan 2021HANSARDTelecommunications (Security) Bill (First sitting)Q I was interested in what you said about the weakest link for networks. I agree wholeheartedly with that. What are your thoughts on fixed networks? While the Government are…14 Jan 2021HANSARDTelecommunications (Security) Bill (First sitting)Q Do you not think resilience is part of security? Is a network secure if it is not resilient? Alex Towers: I think they overlap and that is one of our questions about the…14 Jan 2021HANSARDCovid-19: BAME CommunitiesWhat steps her Department has taken to help tackle the disproportionate effect of the covid-19 outbreak on black, Asian and minority ethnic communities.13 Jan 2021HANSARDCovid-19: BAME CommunitiesThe disparities impact report did not say that race was not a factor. What it actually said was that data were not being collected. Has the Minister ensured that ethnicity data,…13 Jan 2021HANSARD Online AnonymityWill the Minister give way?13 Jan 2021