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HANSARDLord Mandelson: Response to Humble AddressI know that Baroness Anderson in the other place will be listening with great intent to my hon. Friend’s question. I was pleased to get the Prime Minister’s support to appoint…16 Mar 2026HANSARDLord Mandelson: Response to Humble AddressMy hon. Friend will know that there are legal proceedings under way, with actions by the Metropolitan police and others. The Government agree that there should be justice for…16 Mar 2026HANSARDLord Mandelson: Response to Humble AddressAny communications that are subject to the Humble Address will be published in the second tranche.16 Mar 2026HANSARDLord Mandelson: Response to Humble AddressI think there is cross-party agreement that we should introduce legislation that removes life peerages from those in the other place who bring the House into disrepute or suffer a…16 Mar 2026HANSARDLord Mandelson: Response to Humble AddressOn the second half of the hon. Member’s question, the public are looking to the Prime Minister and seeing the important leadership role that he is playing in the world, given the…16 Mar 2026HANSARDLord Mandelson: Response to Humble AddressOf course, the Government take the Humble Address with the utmost seriousness, and respect the sovereignty of Parliament in exercising its own powers, but my hon. Friend is right…16 Mar 2026HANSARDLord Mandelson: Response to Humble AddressI repeat for the House that, in line with the Humble Address, all documents that the Government have were published. The hon. Lady’s reference to 56 documents is a reference to 56…16 Mar 2026HANSARDLord Mandelson: Response to Humble AddressThe right hon. Gentleman invites me to itemise the documents that have been held back by the Metropolitan police. I am advised that I am not at liberty to do that from the…16 Mar 2026HANSARDLord Mandelson: Response to Humble AddressI refer my hon. Friend to the content of my statement, and the very wide-ranging review by the Ethics and Integrity Commission into the process not just for appointments but for…16 Mar 2026HANSARDLord Mandelson: Response to Humble AddressAs the Prime Minister has already said, the length of time it takes between an ambassador’s appointment and agreement from the host country, and for certain vetting to take place,…16 Mar 2026HANSARDLord Mandelson: Response to Humble AddressAs I have said from the Dispatch Box, there are documents that the Government would have wished to have been able to publish as part of the response to the Humble Address, but the…16 Mar 2026HANSARDLord Mandelson: Response to Humble AddressThe documents that were published in the tranche last week in relation to the Humble Address show the process that was followed, which was the proper process at the time.16 Mar 2026HANSARDLord Mandelson: Response to Humble AddressI think all Members across the House would recognise the primacy of the criminal investigations that are under way as the best route for justice for the victims of Jeffrey Epstein…16 Mar 2026HANSARDLord Mandelson: Response to Humble AddressThe hon. Lady should listen carefully to the answer I give. Given our obligations, I am not able to itemise all documents, as I have already set out from the Dispatch Box. What I…16 Mar 2026HANSARDLord Mandelson: Response to Humble AddressThe Government did not wish to give £1 to Peter Mandelson, but, as the documents from tranche 1 revealed last week, the decision was based on advice that the quickest possible…16 Mar 2026HANSARDLord Mandelson: Response to Humble AddressI refer the hon. Gentleman to my previous answer.16 Mar 2026HANSARDLord Mandelson: Response to Humble AddressI agree that all process should be followed, yes.16 Mar 2026HANSARDLord Mandelson: Response to Humble AddressI thank the hon. Member for his questions; I just wanted to clarify whether he felt that I should refer myself to the independent adviser. I refer the hon. Member to the letter…16 Mar 2026HANSARDLord Mandelson: Response to Humble AddressI think I said to the House last week, for the sake of clarity, that while I recognise that correspondence in the bundle mentions the business case being referred to me for my…16 Mar 2026HANSARDLord Mandelson: Response to Humble AddressI think the hon. Member is referring to the initial release of documents by Bloomberg, which exposed the extent and depth of the relationship between Peter Mandelson and Jeffrey…16 Mar 2026