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HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Ninth sitting)Indeed. I was about to reflect on the appointment a long while ago—in another time and another Administration, when there was a severe and prolonged drought—of a Minister for…08 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Ninth sitting)I absolutely endorse that. I also congratulate the Minister on the fact that things are really happening on his watch. I do not necessarily make the parallel with drought and rain…08 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Ninth sitting)I think there is not so much disagreement as puzzlement.08 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Ninth sitting)I am not sure that the Minister has given sufficient consideration to what I thought were genuine points concerning, as I set out, both quality and quantity. He says that it will…08 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Ninth sitting)I cannot immediately, because as I mentioned, having that information available in some way or other—we suggest it should be in the report—is a win, win, win all round. It is…08 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Ninth sitting)To be precise, I said that I was not sure whether we should divide, because we are a little bemused as to why, one way or another, that information should not be within the report…08 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Ninth sitting)To be kind, I think the Minister was reflecting on what the motives for our brief discussion about dividing might have been, rather than attempting in any way to put words in…08 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Ninth sitting)Does the Minister consider that the arrangements in clauses 25 to 28 for variations, revocations and exemptions are a proper subject for inclusion in an annual report? As he will…08 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Tenth sitting)Pursuant to the intervention of my hon. Friend the Member for Newcastle upon Tyne Central, will the Minister and his Department not only think about, but make a positive decision…08 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Tenth sitting)I beg to move amendment 26, in clause 49, page 30, line 31, leave out “28 days” and insert “three months” This amendment would extend the period within which applications for…08 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Tenth sitting)I have not spoken other than to intervene, so the amendment gives me a brief opportunity to commend the heroism of my fellow Committee members for carrying on proceedings when…08 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Tenth sitting)I thank the Minister for that clarification, which appears to suggest that the whole of the Bill, or the decisions in it, are in principle covered by the ability to bring a…08 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Tenth sitting)My hon. Friend makes an important point about the extent to which justice in such circumstances might be like the Ritz: open to everybody, but not necessarily quite as open to…08 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Tenth sitting)I have to be honest, I did not think that was very good. Let us start with who is shortening and who is not shortening. The Minister said that the Opposition seek to lengthen the…08 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Tenth sitting)My hon. Friend hits the nail on the head. In many circumstances, we are not talking about the sort of JRs that we hear about in the press, where a big corporation has been…08 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Ninth sitting)I beg to move amendment 23, in clause 24, page 16, line 26, at end insert— “(6) The Secretary of State must publish each year the aggregate amount of days included under…08 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Ninth sitting)My hon. Friend makes an important point on the amendment about how we undertake the difficult job of making sure something is efficiently and effectively carried out, while not…08 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Eighth sitting)But apparently there are no international flight payments as far as overseas witnesses are concerned. I do not know whether the Minister has that in mind, but I note a big…03 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Eighth sitting)My hon. Friend is right. I think that, because things have changed so substantially over the past decade or so, we tend to see things in a way that we may not have easily seen…03 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Eighth sitting)I will not take up too much of the Committee’s time, but I wish to say a few words about the excellent contribution that my hon. Friend the Member for Ilford South has made to our…03 Dec 2020