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HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Eleventh sitting)indicated assent.10 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Eleventh sitting)With your permission, Mr Twigg, I will speak initially to clause 54 stand part and then address amendment 30, relating to clause 54. I will then turn to clause 55 stand part. On…10 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Eleventh sitting)Quasi-judicial.10 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Eleventh sitting)I am grateful to the hon. Member. I hope that in my further remarks, if I can make some headway, I will be able to reassure him on those points. Thirdly, when disclosing…10 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Eleventh sitting)I am grateful. If the drive of the hon. Member’s probing is to ensure that the Secretary of State, when he considers disclosing information to a foreign country, takes into…10 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Eleventh sitting)I am grateful to the hon. Lady. I remind her that the legislation requires the Secretary of State to act in a quasi-judicial way, not as a political figure. I appreciate that by a…10 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Eleventh sitting)It is not a strange concept that a Minister acts in a quasi-judicial way in making such decisions. I will now briefly turn to clause 55, which makes provision for specific…10 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Eleventh sitting)I am just finishing my point. I hope that hon. Members will agree that clause 55 provides appropriately robust safeguards for the onward sharing or use of information received…10 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Eleventh sitting)Clause 56 places a duty on the CMA to provide information and any other assistance to the Secretary of State to enable him to carry out his functions under the Bill. For this…10 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Ninth sitting)If the hon. Lady’s question is about how broad clause 26 is—08 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Ninth sitting)It is time limited, but that does not specify what the time needs to be. I will happily write to the hon. Lady.08 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Ninth sitting)I see where the hon. Gentleman is coming from. The House has many levers at its disposal, including the Select Committee process, to probe the effectiveness of the new regime. I…08 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Ninth sitting)I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. We have had that debate already, and we have set out clearly what we think is appropriate to be in the report, notwithstanding what we might…08 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Ninth sitting)I heard the hon. Gentleman say that he was going to withdraw the amendment, then the hon. Member for Newcastle upon Tyne Central said, “No, we’re going to put it to a vote.”08 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Ninth sitting)We have very carefully considered the types of information that would be helpful to investors. The direction of travel—this was the question raised earlier by the hon. Member for…08 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Ninth sitting)I turn to clauses 25 to 28, which I shall treat together, as they all relate to orders that the Secretary of State may make in relation to notifiable cases under the national…08 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Ninth sitting)I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. I intend to speak first to clause 24 stand part and then turn to amendment 23. Clause 24 concerns the Secretary of State’s…08 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Ninth sitting)I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his ingenious attempt at augmenting this excellent Bill, but for the reasons I have just set out I see no grounds for including the…08 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Ninth sitting)Just to second what the hon. Member for Newcastle upon Tyne Central said, we have an incredible team in our NHS in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, our military and…08 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Ninth sitting)rose—08 Dec 2020