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HANSARDCyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill (Fourth sitting)I thank my hon. Friend for that pertinent intervention. The burden she talks about is not just financial; companies could also find themselves in legal jeopardy should they become…05 Feb 2026HANSARDCyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill (Fourth sitting)Irrespective of their size, whatever definition or metric we use, businesses operate on fine margins for the majority of the time. Regulatory burdens not only impact their ability…05 Feb 2026HANSARDCyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill (Fourth sitting)I thank my hon. Friend for pointing out that discrepancy in the costings. It goes back to the key principle that business and business modelling are best left to businesspeople,…05 Feb 2026HANSARDCyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill (Fourth sitting)The cloud providers I have spoken to talk about several things. They talk about the crippling cost of energy in the UK, something that we need to drive down—05 Feb 2026HANSARDCyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill (Fourth sitting)The cloud providers tell me that the energy costs are crippling, which is highly problematic, and that is why we need to drive those costs down. They talk about the challenges of…05 Feb 2026HANSARDCyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill (Fourth sitting)I thank my hon. Friend for her intervention. Legal clarity is important. I have absolutely no issue with lawyers, but we do not want to make a load of money for lawyers as a…05 Feb 2026HANSARDCyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill (Fourth sitting)On a point of order, Ms McVey. What mechanism is available to Members who are concerned that there is a factual error in the impact assessment? How can that be corrected?05 Feb 2026HANSARDCyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill (Fourth sitting)This clause is one of the provisions that has given rise to widespread industry concern regarding its scope and implications. Business supply chains, particularly for large…05 Feb 2026HANSARDCyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill (Fourth sitting)My hon. Friend has figured out what I am going to say in a moment, when it comes to the scoping of the regulator and that communication process. Such is the depth of the rabbit…05 Feb 2026HANSARDCyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill (Third sitting)Before the Minister moves on—I was a bit nervous that he was going to finish—I have an additional question about the Crown data centre. What happens if a data centre is providing…05 Feb 2026HANSARDCyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill (Fourth sitting)I thank the hon. Member so much for that intervention about the time it would take to find an alternative supplier, because it will bring me on nicely to my point about…05 Feb 2026HANSARDCyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill (Third sitting)I thank my hon. Friend for her intervention. I am reminded of the Committee’s evidence session earlier this week, in which expert after expert lined up to raise concerns around…05 Feb 2026HANSARDCyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill (Third sitting)That is a stark message. Going back to my previous point, I struggle to think how many small businesses can really put in the necessary resource to take these sorts of steps on…05 Feb 2026HANSARDCyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill (Third sitting)That is something that I know will come up in debate as we go through the Bill. It is curious that we are receiving consistent feedback that some boards are not taking the issue…05 Feb 2026HANSARDCyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill (Fourth sitting)I really appreciate my hon. Friend’s intervention. It goes incisively to the heart of the concern about how these provisions are currently drafted. I really struggle to see how an…05 Feb 2026HANSARDCyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill (Fourth sitting)Will the Minister give way?05 Feb 2026HANSARDCyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill (Fourth sitting)I will speak to the amendments tabled by the hon. Member for Dewsbury and Batley (Iqbal Mohamed), but wait for the next group to speak to clauses 15 and 16 and the amendments to…05 Feb 2026HANSARDCyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill (Third sitting)Clause 3 will amend the relevant provisions of the NIS regulations, stipulating that operators of essential services are within scope of the regulations whether or not they are…05 Feb 2026HANSARDCyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill (Fourth sitting)The Minister is, of course, within his rights to snarkily dismiss the questions that I have raised, but I should point out that the stuff that is debated in Parliament, whether in…05 Feb 2026HANSARDCyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill (Fourth sitting)Clause 13 requires in-scope data centre operators to provide certain information to their designated competent authorities, which—subject to Government amendment 11, which we…05 Feb 2026