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HANSARDCyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill (Fourth sitting)Will the Minister please clarify whether he thinks that, as page 102 of the impact assessment states, the hourly rate for a lawyer changing a contract is £34?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 am sorry, but that is nonsense. The footnote on the page that cites £34 an hour for a contract lawyer directs us back to the Office for National Statistics. I hope that the…05 Feb 2026HANSARDCyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill (Fourth sitting)To understand the impact of what we are discussing, we obviously look at the impact assessment. We in this place are often accused of simply making rules and passing laws with no…05 Feb 2026HANSARDCyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill (Fourth sitting)I do not want to add spurious hypotheticals, so I will talk about the real world. I visited the Maypole special school in my constituency the other day. It has 20 members of staff…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)The Minister came back with an answer on proportionality, saying that it is not for Government to decide what is essential. He missed out the next bit, which is, “We’re just going…05 Feb 2026HANSARDLord MandelsonAs I am sure my right hon. Friend remembers, once the Bloomberg leak had happened, many of us said to the Government that now that those things had turned out to be true, we…04 Feb 2026HANSARDCyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill (Second sitting)Q I want to make sure I have understood exactly. Is the regulator going to tell you who your operators of essential services are, or are you going to tell the regulator? Brian…03 Feb 2026HANSARDCyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill (Second sitting)Q To be very clear, the three regulators we had here today were the Information Commissioner, Ofgem and Ofcom. If they thought that they had a locus because of something that that…03 Feb 2026HANSARDCyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill (Second sitting)Q One of my favourite aphorisms is, “Institutions get the behaviours they reward.” We had a cry from Amazon Web Services this morning about how, when a regulator deals with a…03 Feb 2026HANSARDCyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill (Second sitting)Q To come back to Dr Spencer’s original question about the scope of the legislation, the current situation, as I understand it, is that there is a carve-out for small and…03 Feb 2026HANSARDCyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill (First sitting)Do either of the other witnesses have anything to say on that? Jill Broom indicated dissent. Dr Sanjana Mehta indicated dissent .03 Feb 2026HANSARDCyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill (Second sitting)Q That is a very clear answer on the steps that have to be followed. Do you envisage that each regulator in, for example, the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde will follow the steps…03 Feb 2026HANSARDCyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill (Second sitting)Q I want to come back to that point. Chris, you said something like, “SMEs find it very difficult, if not impossible, to bear the regulatory burden, so we have to be very careful…03 Feb 2026HANSARDCyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill (First sitting)Q I appreciate that. My question was about where that leads them to attack, on the basis that they will take the route of least resistance. Where is that? Is that an international…03 Feb 2026HANSARDCyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill (First sitting)Q On the question of closer alignment, can you give us a sense from the international picture of whether certain regulatory regimes raise the barrier to terrorists or criminals so…03 Feb 2026HANSARDCyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill (Second sitting)Q Going back to our conversation with the head of IT security and compliance at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and what could be designated an operator of essential services, and…03 Feb 2026HANSARDCyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill (Second sitting)Q Sorry, I misspoke. I mean an SME that is deemed a critical supplier. Who is going to deem them so? Which of the many regulators at play in that hospital is going to decide who…03 Feb 2026HANSARDCyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill (Second sitting)I meant operators of essential services. Kanishka Narayan: The Bill effectively specifies operators of essential services as large participants in the essential services sectors.…03 Feb 2026