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HANSARD Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) BillMay I draw the hon. Member back to the question of what we mean by a high-risk vendor? Quite rightly, she is focused on the security element, but in a throwaway line she talked…10 Mar 2020HANSARD Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) BillWill the Minister give way on that exact point?10 Mar 2020HANSARD Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) BillAs my right hon. Friend intimates, there is a massive subsidy from the Chinese state to Huawei, and that is for a purpose. Would he care to expatiate on what that purpose might be?10 Mar 2020HANSARD Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) BillI suspect I am going to agree with some of the things that the hon. Lady says later in her speech, but before we get to that point, let us not be too prissy about the party…10 Mar 2020HANSARD Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) BillIt is not just subsidy that supports Huawei and undermines its competition. At least some members of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service believe that Huawei started by…10 Mar 2020HANSARD Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) BillMy hon. Friend makes a very good point, but I suspect that seven years is a massive overestimate. Like our telephones, this technology changes every 18 months. Seven years is the…10 Mar 2020HANSARDAntimicrobial Resistance3. What assessment his Department has made of the risks to public health of antimicrobial resistance.10 Mar 2020HANSARD Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) BillPoint No. 1: there is unavailable capacity—well, Ericsson says that that is not true. It said that at Davos earlier this year and Samsung says that it is not true, but if we want…10 Mar 2020HANSARDAntimicrobial ResistanceRegrettably, the coronavirus outbreak has demonstrated the susceptibility of global society to pandemics and antimicrobial resistant organisms. Lord O’Neill, who chaired the…10 Mar 2020HANSARDTopical QuestionsT3. May I take up the Secretary of State on her comment at the beginning on sanctions in the context of coronavirus? Currently, jobseeker’s allowance requires claimants to attend…09 Mar 2020HANSARDHuawei and 5GI say to the Minister that a mixture of good and bad is not diversity. That is the first thing. He says that he puts the security of the nation first. In pursuit of that, the…04 Mar 2020HANSARDHuawei and 5GI have been listening carefully to my right hon. Friend’s brilliant speech. As far as I can see, so far he has knocked down the Government’s arguments on technical grounds,…04 Mar 2020HANSARDVoter Identification: Voting Fraud2. Whether his Department has made an assessment of the extent to which the use of voter identification will tackle voter fraud.27 Feb 2020HANSARDTopical QuestionsT8. Given the ridiculous bluster and sabre rattling that we have heard from the European Commission in the past few days, what assessment have the Government made of the damage…27 Feb 2020HANSARDVoter Identification: Voting FraudThe Minister will be unsurprised to hear that I am unimpressed by this illiberal idea. The Electoral Commission says that fraud relating to proxy voting, postal voting, bribery,…27 Feb 2020HANSARDReoffending ReductionFor one category of crime—domestic violence—the moment of release of the perpetrator is the start of a period of fear for their erstwhile victim. Has the Lord Chancellor…25 Feb 2020HANSARDPoints-based Immigration SystemOur excellent Home Secretary had two fundamental questions to answer today: was she going to reflect the democratic will of 70% to 80% of the British public, not to do away with…24 Feb 2020HANSARDEngagementsFollowing on from the question from my right hon. Friend the Member for Ashford (Damian Green) about Huawei, the Australian agencies analysed the involvement of any element of…05 Feb 2020HANSARD UK TelecommunicationsI will answer the Foreign Secretary’s question to the Scottish National party spokesman: yes, I do think Huawei should be banned from our networks. It was founded by a member of…28 Jan 2020HANSARD UK-US Extradition AgreementMy right hon. Friend is exactly right. I was the shadow Home Secretary at the time and I opposed this treaty, but eventually our party gave in on the grounds that it was about…23 Jan 2020