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HANSARDNational Security BillMy Lords, I thank the noble Lord for speaking to Amendment 114, which seeks to require the Cabinet Secretary to publish information concerning ministerial appointments in…18 Jan 2023HANSARDNational Security Bill18 Jan 2023HANSARDNational Security BillThis Bill does exactly that. We have been talking about FIRS over the last couple of days—the foreign influence registration scheme. There are different tiers specified in that.…18 Jan 2023HANSARDNational Security BillMy Lords, Amendment 124 creates the power to extend any provision in the Bill with or without modification to the sovereign base areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia in Cyprus by way of…18 Jan 2023HANSARDNational Security Bill16 Jan 2023HANSARDBanks: Forged Customer SignaturesMy Lords, I have not seen the 10,000 pages of evidence in the 26 lever arch files, but expert investigators have, and it is their opinions that we are waiting for.16 Jan 2023HANSARDBanks: Forged Customer SignaturesRegarding the national strategy, the noble Lord makes a very good point. I committed at the Dispatch Box that it would be out before the end of last year. However, I can confirm…16 Jan 2023HANSARDBanks: Forged Customer SignaturesI completely agree with my noble friend that we should look at the fraudsters. Regarding Action Fraud, we are providing £10 million to the City of London Police this year to…16 Jan 2023HANSARDBanks: Forged Customer SignaturesThe noble Baroness makes an interesting point, which I will happily take back to those who are responsible for overlooking and overseeing the FCA.16 Jan 2023HANSARDBanks: Forged Customer SignaturesMy Lords, my noble friend makes a very sensible point. However, fraud falls within the Financial Conduct Authority’s objective of reducing the risk of financial crime, which…16 Jan 2023HANSARDBanks: Forged Customer SignaturesMy Lords, it is not the banks which need to get a move on. As I said earlier, the decision has been communicated to some of the complainants, but the Treasury Select Committee,…16 Jan 2023HANSARDBanks: Forged Customer SignaturesAs I have just said, I am afraid that I am unable to comment on individual cases. I do not know the circumstances of this particular case, but I will find out more.16 Jan 2023HANSARDNational Security BillI was about to attempt to address the question from the noble and learned Lord, Lord Hope, but unfortunately he is not going to like the answer, which is that I do not know. I…16 Jan 2023HANSARDNational Security BillI think I explained this in reasonable detail. It goes back to the sort of work the lawyers carry out. As I say, it is the long-standing protections that the UK has afforded—16 Jan 2023HANSARDNational Security BillYes. Amendment 103 was tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, to remove the exemption from the registration requirement in FIRS for lawyers providing legal activities.…16 Jan 2023HANSARDNational Security BillMy Lords, I thought I was very clear on the precise specified persons tier here. A UK university would need to be acting at the direction of a specified foreign power or a…16 Jan 2023HANSARDNational Security BillIn that case, I am very sorry to disappoint the noble Lord. I apologise for having spoken at such length.16 Jan 2023HANSARDNational Security BillI do not think that I am putting it into a particularly neat category; I think I am leaving a large amount of room for this to be taken on a case-by-case basis. I repeat: only…16 Jan 2023HANSARDNational Security BillThe noble Lord has pre-empted the remainder of my speech to some extent, which I am afraid goes on for rather a long time; I apologise in advance for that. I will come on to the…16 Jan 2023HANSARDNational Security BillI will come back to the noble Lord on that shortly. I will go on to the commercial sensitivity aspects—in effect commercial confidentiality, mentioned just now by the noble Lord,…16 Jan 2023