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HANSARDUnited Front Work DepartmentThe right hon. Gentleman makes a very sensible point, as always. I have not yet looked at the US Treasury Department’s website, but I give him an undertaking that I will look at…16 Dec 2024HANSARDUnited Front Work DepartmentThe right hon. Gentleman makes a fair point, which I am very happy to discuss with him offline. I will look carefully at the suggestion he has made; I know that it is being…16 Dec 2024HANSARDUnited Front Work DepartmentYes, I can give that assurance.16 Dec 2024HANSARDUnited Front Work DepartmentThe hon. Gentleman has been consistent in raising this matter. Let me give him an absolute assurance that foreign intervention, wherever it comes from, is completely unacceptable,…16 Dec 2024HANSARDUnited Front Work DepartmentLet me first come to the point the right hon. Gentleman made about FIRS. Upon our arrival in government, we found that FIRS was not ready to be implemented, as has been claimed.…16 Dec 2024HANSARDUnited Front Work DepartmentThe first duty of any Government is national security, and we therefore welcome the court’s decision to uphold the Home Office’s position with regard to the exclusion of H6, who…16 Dec 2024HANSARDUnited Front Work DepartmentI was not going to make this point, but given the way in which the right hon. and learned Lady has made hers, I will gently point out that the previous Government had a…16 Dec 2024HANSARDUnited Front Work DepartmentMy hon. Friend makes an important point. We are working at pace with colleagues across Government, including in the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and the Department…16 Dec 2024HANSARDUnited Front Work DepartmentFirst, we were pleased to offer that briefing because these are important matters that should not divide us. It will always be this Government’s approach that, where we can work…16 Dec 2024HANSARDUnited Front Work DepartmentWe are working with other Departments to carry out an audit of the UK’s relationship with China. This is being done to improve our ability to understand and respond to both the…16 Dec 2024HANSARDUnited Front Work DepartmentI can assure the hon. Lady that this Government are, and will be, taking the robust action required to combat the nature of the threat that she rightly characterised. She is right…16 Dec 2024HANSARDUnited Front Work DepartmentI am grateful to my hon. Friend for making that point. By necessity, the work that our intelligence services do is in the shadows, but since coming into this role a number of…16 Dec 2024HANSARDUnited Front Work DepartmentI am grateful to the Chair of the Home Affairs Committee for her questions; I know the Home Secretary is looking forward to appearing in front of the Committee tomorrow. On the…16 Dec 2024HANSARDUnited Front Work DepartmentI agree that is not the right approach; the current Government’s approach is the right one. I have laid out the strategic approach we intend to adopt with China. We have to be…16 Dec 2024HANSARDUnited Front Work DepartmentThe right hon. and learned Lady shakes her head. It is a statement of fact that the previous Government had a significant amount of time—many months—from the passing of the…16 Dec 2024HANSARDUnited Front Work DepartmentI agree. This Government’s approach will always be to work constructively across the House on matters relating to national security, but given the record of certain right hon. and…16 Dec 2024HANSARDUnited Front Work DepartmentThe right hon. Gentleman knows that I take these matters incredibly seriously. He and I have known each other for a very long time. I therefore know that he will take on trust my…16 Dec 2024HANSARDUnited Front Work DepartmentMy hon. Friend makes an important point, and speaks with great authority on this matter. He will know that we have just appointed Baroness Hodge as the Government’s new…16 Dec 2024HANSARDUnited Front Work DepartmentI am grateful to the hon. Member for raising the plight of his constituents. Yes, I can give him those assurances. The Government take very seriously the kinds of interventions he…16 Dec 2024HANSARDUnited Front Work DepartmentMy hon. Friend makes an important point. I briefly mentioned earlier the importance that this Government attach to the defending democracy taskforce. We inherited that body from…16 Dec 2024