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HANSARDInfected Blood Compensation SchemeIt depends on the nature of the change. For example, on the issue being described as burden of proof, I have already repeatedly mentioned from the Dispatch Box the sympathetic…18 Jun 2026 · 2d agoHANSARDInfected Blood Compensation SchemeIt is a solemn privilege to close this debate, which has been extraordinarily moving. I start by paying tribute to the Backbench Business Committee and my hon. Friend the Member…18 Jun 2026 · 2d agoHANSARDLord Mandelson: Response to Humble AddressTo the right hon. Gentleman’s direct question, I have not been part of the process or been given precise dates for when the Metropolitan police said what. However, I will say…03 Jun 2026HANSARDLord Mandelson: Response to Humble AddressI beg to move, That this House has considered the Government’s response to the House’s humble Address of 4 February 2026. On 4 February I came before the House to debate the…03 Jun 2026HANSARDLord Mandelson: Response to Humble AddressWe have set off a surge of interventions. I will give way to the hon. Lady and then the right hon. Gentleman, and that is it.03 Jun 2026HANSARDLord Mandelson: Response to Humble AddressOn Palantir, I refer my hon. Friend to the methodology statement at the start of each of the three volumes, where it is made absolutely clear that there is a recognition that…03 Jun 2026HANSARDLord Mandelson: Response to Humble AddressOn the subject of someone who might be keen on Gladstone, I will give way.03 Jun 2026HANSARDLord Mandelson: Response to Humble AddressI will, just.03 Jun 2026HANSARDLord Mandelson: Response to Humble AddressIt was an official-led process. Let me just make that clear, because the right hon. Gentleman points towards a pretty important issue. We had the Humble Address and its…03 Jun 2026HANSARDLord Mandelson: Response to Humble AddressI will take an intervention from the right hon. Gentleman, but then I need to make a bit more progress.03 Jun 2026HANSARDLord Mandelson: Response to Humble AddressI reject the suggestion that there is any wrongdoing, as regards Palantir contracts being renewed—I think one was renewed by the Ministry of Defence—in the way that the hon.…03 Jun 2026HANSARDLord Mandelson: Response to Humble AddressAs ever, my right hon. Friend makes her case forcefully. I am treading carefully in my language because this process has been led by officials working with the ISC. The officials…03 Jun 2026HANSARDLord Mandelson: Response to Humble AddressI agree with the right hon. Gentleman. It is just that if he looks at the wording of the Humble Address, he will see that it lists a series of classes of documents, and then it…03 Jun 2026HANSARDLord Mandelson: Response to Humble AddressI am grateful to my right hon. Friend. Officials leading the process will have heard the exchange—and this exchange—in relation to that specific point about Ian Collard. As the…03 Jun 2026HANSARDLord Mandelson: Response to Humble AddressIt is, quite rightly, for the police and not for Ministers to determine the way in which they want their investigation to proceed and to identify documents that they feel are…03 Jun 2026HANSARDLord Mandelson: Response to Humble AddressThat of course strays into the conflict of interests class of documents, which is still one of the classes that is with the Metropolitan police. I conclude by saying again that it…03 Jun 2026HANSARDLord Mandelson: Response to Humble AddressI think some Conservative Members would be quite happy to have Gladstonian principles in government. I really do reject the point about a cover-up, and I reject it for this…03 Jun 2026HANSARDLord Mandelson: Response to Humble AddressI do not expect that to happen, but of course if it did, we would consider it. I will finally give way to the right hon. Member for Islington North.03 Jun 2026HANSARDLord Mandelson: Response to Humble AddressThe answer is that they are blank now because they were blank then. The formal decision to appoint Peter Mandelson as the ambassador was conveyed by the Prime Minister’s then…03 Jun 2026HANSARDLord Mandelson: Response to Humble AddressI am not hiding from the fact that we have to make changes to the appointments process. Indeed, the Government have changed the process for all direct ministerial appointments to…03 Jun 2026