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HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Sixth sitting)I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Ilford South for moving the amendment. The Committee must support the aims of the amendment and the implementation of the requirement to…01 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Sixth sitting)I would like to press amendment 2 but withdraw amendment 9. I would like to hear the Committee specifically on national security. Amendment proposed : 2, in clause 3, page 3, line…01 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Sixth sitting)My hon. Friend intends to stay where he is. I thank him for his oratory on the importance of the single word “may”. Something has been lost in translation between ourselves and…01 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Sixth sitting)I am sorry. Southampton, Test.01 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Sixth sitting)I thank the Minister for his response. I particularly thank my hon. Friends for the points that they have raised. My hon. Friend the Member for Ilford South set out the importance…01 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Sixth sitting)I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. As a past employee of a regulator, Ofcom, he really appeals to my sense of regulatory best practice in speaking as he does about the…01 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Sixth sitting)I beg to move amendment 1, in clause 3, page 3, line 1, leave out “may” and insert “shall”. This amendment would make it obligatory for the Secretary of State to include certain…01 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Fifth sitting)I thank the Minister for his remarks on clause 1 stand part and for setting out the Bill’s aims and ambitions. We largely agree with those aims and ambitions, and in that spirit I…01 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Fifth sitting)I thank the Minister for his response and the generally constructive tone with which he laid out the aims of the amendments and the reasons he did not feel able to accept them.…01 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Fifth sitting)The review would be required before issuing a call-in notice. The impact assessment mentioned about 1,830 notifications, but only 90 call-in notices. It is not accurate to say…01 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Fifth sitting)I thank the Minister for giving way and again congratulate him on his new role. I also thank him for his constructive tone. I sense a contradiction in the point he is making. He…01 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Fifth sitting)I will follow your guidance, Mr Twigg. Under the amendments, the Government would have to publish notifiable acquisition regulations to define sectors and notification rules in…01 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Fifth sitting)The hon. Lady makes a good point, in that much would be solved by the appropriate phone call at the appropriate time. Had Sir Richard Dearlove been phoned by the right person when…01 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Fifth sitting)I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention, because I think we are getting to the nub of it. The amendment is necessary because, as I outlined, there is an inherent conflict…01 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Fifth sitting)I am struggling to see how that would happen. How would Parliament, after the Bill becomes law, decide that the Intelligence and Security Committee, as opposed to or in addition…01 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Fifth sitting)Perhaps I do not quite understand the point that the hon. Gentleman is making, because we propose that the Intelligence and Security Committee should provide that scrutiny. The…01 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Fifth sitting)My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Perhaps I should have emphasised that point more. When we look at the examples of Huawei or DeepMind, which was allowed to be sold to Google in…01 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Fifth sitting)I thank my hon. Friend for that important point. I am reluctant to continuously mention China, because this is not an anti-China Bill per se, but we heard in oral evidence of the…01 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Fifth sitting)I welcome the hon. Lady’s intervention. It is great to have scientific knowledge in Committee and in the House. I welcome the contributions and scrutiny that a scientific…01 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Fifth sitting)I welcome this debate. If by that the hon. Member is asking whether I think human rights have a relationship to national security, that was very well debated yesterday in relation…01 Dec 2020