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HANSARD Intelligence and Security Committee: Russia ReportThere is strong join-up between our security and intelligence agencies as well as our police. Indeed, when looking at the work that I do each week, I see that join up and see that…22 Jul 2020HANSARD Intelligence and Security Committee: Russia ReportMembers will have heard what I said in my opening statement about the various steps that have been taken, including on countering illicit finance, dealing with the potential abuse…22 Jul 2020HANSARD Intelligence and Security Committee: Russia ReportI recognise the work of the hon. Gentleman over a number of years on Magnitsky sanction-type regimes, as he rightly pointed out, and I hope that he will recognise and welcome the…22 Jul 2020HANSARD Intelligence and Security Committee: Russia ReportI am grateful to my hon. Friend for his question. We have been examining the laws in different countries that govern foreign agent registration. We are drawing that together into…22 Jul 2020HANSARD Intelligence and Security Committee: Russia ReportI pay tribute to my hon. Friend for all his work. Russia seeks to advance the sense of a state that supports the rules-based order, yet through all its other actions, we can see…22 Jul 2020HANSARD Intelligence and Security Committee: Russia ReportI can give that assurance to my hon. Friend. I recognise very clearly the importance of NATO, especially its work on cyber and other support. In that context, I would cite the…22 Jul 2020HANSARD Intelligence and Security Committee: Russia ReportLike my hon. Friend, I pay tribute to the work of our world-leading and incredible intelligence and security agencies and the steps they take day in, day out to assure our…22 Jul 2020HANSARD Intelligence and Security Committee: Russia ReportI am happy to say that I do not have any knowledge of what the hon. Gentleman is saying; I do not recognise that at all. From my standpoint, it is important that the ISC is able…22 Jul 2020HANSARD Intelligence and Security Committee: Russia ReportMy right hon. Friend has, in his customary and very powerful way, set out the position on Russia Today and those who have supported it and those who have been engaged in it. We…22 Jul 2020HANSARD Intelligence and Security Committee: Russia ReportThe hon. Gentleman wrapped a few questions into that contribution. The point is that we are taking this issue forward in relation to our legislation on online harms and working…22 Jul 2020HANSARD Intelligence and Security Committee: Russia ReportMy hon. Friend makes several relevant points on the role of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and the need for social media companies to do more. They need to…22 Jul 2020HANSARD Intelligence and Security Committee: Russia ReportDirty money—money obtained through criminality or corruption—has no place in this country, and there should be no doubt that we will ensure that the full weight of the law…22 Jul 2020HANSARD Intelligence and Security Committee: Russia ReportThe disinformation point is a very relevant one. Our counter-disinformation unit is led by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, bringing all this action together…22 Jul 2020HANSARD Intelligence and Security Committee: Russia ReportI absolutely endorse what my hon. Friend has said so succinctly and so clearly. It is in the interests of our United Kingdom to stand together and be united in that way, and we…22 Jul 2020HANSARD Intelligence and Security Committee: Russia ReportIt seems as if again the issue is about trying to rerun the Brexit referendum, but I would say on the hon. Member’s broader point that through the defending democracy programme,…22 Jul 2020HANSARD Intelligence and Security Committee: Russia ReportNo. I am very comfortable in underlining the Government’s commitment to defending our national security. As for the hon. Gentleman’s point about structure, this is about having a…22 Jul 2020HANSARD Intelligence and Security Committee: Russia ReportI will take no lectures from the Labour party, or indeed the Whips’ question that the hon. Gentleman has asked me. This Government and my party are vigilant on issues of national…22 Jul 2020HANSARD Intelligence and Security Committee: Russia ReportOur work is informed by regular assessments by our security and intelligence agencies to ensure that dynamic response, hence the reason we are not persuaded by this call for a…22 Jul 2020HANSARD Intelligence and Security Committee: Russia ReportI can tell my hon. Friend of the support and resourcing that is given to our intelligence and security agencies and how we have such world-leading capabilities. We can be proud of…22 Jul 2020HANSARD Intelligence and Security Committee: Russia ReportI am very clear, as I have been in response to previous questions, on the need for independence by the ISC. I do not want to see its independence questioned or drawn into any…22 Jul 2020