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HANSARDTelecommunications (Security) Bill (Sixth sitting)I am not sure I fully understand the right hon. Gentleman’s point.21 Jan 2021HANSARDTelecommunications (Security) Bill (Sixth sitting)I am very happy to do so. I think it is obvious that clarity of communication would be incompatible with duplication. Question put and agreed to. Clause 4 accordingly ordered to…21 Jan 2021HANSARDTelecommunications (Security) Bill (Sixth sitting)The amendment would add to the general duty in clause 5 that places on Ofcom the duty to ensure that providers comply with their security duties. The duty as written in the Bill…21 Jan 2021HANSARDTelecommunications (Security) Bill (Sixth sitting)The regulation that I cited is an example of the Government not relying on assumptions. It is an example of us publishing, in advance, exactly the sort of material that…21 Jan 2021HANSARDTelecommunications (Security) Bill (Sixth sitting)The sort of horizon scanning that the hon. Lady describes is core to all essential regulation, and the relationship that Ofcom has with those whom it regulates promotes the…21 Jan 2021HANSARDTelecommunications (Security) Bill (Sixth sitting)I think the Bill is perfectly drafted down to every comma and punctuation mark. To be slightly more serious, what we have sought to do in the drafting is to strike the balance…21 Jan 2021HANSARDTelecommunications (Security) Bill (Sixth sitting)The legislation places a duty on providers. Meeting the strictures of the code of practice would be the way of demonstrating that they were meeting that duty as an initial step,…21 Jan 2021HANSARDTelecommunications (Security) Bill (Sixth sitting)The approach that we have adopted across the Bill is that powers such as those in clause 12 are more than wide enough to cover exactly what is needed. What I am essentially…21 Jan 2021HANSARDTelecommunications (Security) Bill (Sixth sitting)I will go very briefly over the diversification strategy, which is essentially a £250-million initial tranche of investment to diversify the UK network, with a focus, to a certain…21 Jan 2021HANSARDTelecommunications (Security) Bill (Fifth sitting)In so far as codes of practice will be published by Ofcom, the answer to the right hon. Gentleman’s question is yes. The more nuanced answer is that it is a co-production between…21 Jan 2021HANSARDTelecommunications (Security) Bill (Sixth sitting)I am very happy to write to the hon. Lady to clarify why it is our belief that the Bill does that. What I would say is that the kind of specificity that she seeks would have the…21 Jan 2021HANSARDTelecommunications (Security) Bill (Fifth sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Hollobone. I echo the thanks of the hon. Member for Newcastle upon Tyne Central to you and the House staff for facilitating…21 Jan 2021HANSARDTelecommunications (Security) Bill (Fifth sitting)As I have said, new section 105A partly provides the legal basis that the right hon. Gentleman seeks, but in practice no one is suggesting—the Secretary of State talked about this…21 Jan 2021HANSARDTelecommunications (Security) Bill (Fifth sitting)I simply say that, as the right hon. Gentleman knows, the NCSC and others already work very closely with the networks. What he seems to be talking about, in some ways, is a very…21 Jan 2021HANSARDTelecommunications (Security) Bill (Sixth sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr McCabe. We are redefining UK telecoms security, but I worry that we are also redefining the aspiration of the hon. Member for…21 Jan 2021HANSARDTelecommunications (Security) Bill (Fifth sitting)I start by acknowledging the incredibly important work that the ISC does. Its role in overseeing the work of the UK intelligence community is vital to maintaining public trust, as…21 Jan 2021HANSARDTelecommunications (Security) Bill (Sixth sitting)I enjoyed the semantic gymnastics by the hon. Member for City of Chester as he tried to expand the scope of the Bill, but I shall try to stick to what is in it. There is a lot of…21 Jan 2021HANSARDTelecommunications (Security) Bill (Sixth sitting)If the hon. Lady were right, the only people from whom we would have heard evidence over the last few days would have been public sector employees. She knows just as well as I do…21 Jan 2021HANSARDTelecommunications (Security) Bill (Sixth sitting)I think this would be impossible to identify without carrying out some kind of audit. There is a danger of a semantic argument, but I understand the point the hon. Lady is making.…21 Jan 2021HANSARDTelecommunications (Security) Bill (Sixth sitting)We are one thirtieth of the way there. The clause will place a duty on providers to take measures in response to security compromises through proposed new section 105C. When…21 Jan 2021