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HANSARD Investigatory Powers (Amendment)Bill [Lords]I think that is helpful. The Minister will remember that when we debated the original Bill that became the Investigatory Powers Act, one or two newspapers used the term “the…25 Mar 2024HANSARD Investigatory Powers (Amendment)Bill [Lords]I entirely understand. I used the example myself of trading standards: in Lincolnshire, we have an issue with the sale of illegal cigarettes that has become not a trivial matter,…25 Mar 2024HANSARD Investigatory Powers (Amendment)Bill [Lords]Yes, exactly. The right hon. Gentleman has put it very clearly, and the sense of what the Minister has said has reassured me that it is not the Government’s intention to extend…25 Mar 2024HANSARD Investigatory Powers (Amendment)Bill [Lords]That is very helpful and, I think, goes a fair way towards what I want to achieve. The Minister has therefore made clear that the power will not be permissive. If he uses those…25 Mar 2024HANSARD Investigatory Powers (Amendment)Bill [Lords]The Minister may want to intervene on me again to do exactly what the right hon. Gentleman has suggested.25 Mar 2024HANSARD Investigatory Powers (Amendment)Bill [Lords]I am seeing the Minister nodding. He might want to say a word or two more when he sums up.25 Mar 2024HANSARD Investigatory Powers (Amendment)Bill [Lords]The Minister is going to satisfy me immediately, it seems.25 Mar 2024HANSARD Investigatory Powers (Amendment)Bill [Lords]As you will know, Madam Deputy Speaker, and as other Members have made reference to, I was the Minister who took the original Bill, which this Bill amends, through the…25 Mar 2024HANSARD Investigatory Powers (Amendment)Bill [Lords]That is excellent—it helps, because the schedule associated with that part of the Bill does not make that explicit. I hope that the Minister, having given that binding assurance…25 Mar 2024HANSARD Investigatory Powers (Amendment)Bill [Lords]I note the right hon. Gentleman’s proper consideration of the balance between privacy and security, which lies at the heart of the Bill, but I also recognise the Minister’s…25 Mar 2024HANSARD Investigatory Powers (Amendment)Bill [Lords]I said that we are not going to be partisan in this debate, and the shadow Minister started in that vein, but my right hon. Friend has been highly contentious about the Bill that…25 Mar 2024HANSARD Investigatory Powers (Amendment)Bill [Lords]Is this an example of my being more hardline than the right hon. Gentleman? It seems like it to me, but perhaps not.25 Mar 2024HANSARD Investigatory Powers (Amendment)Bill [Lords]The hon. Gentleman’s point is made more potent by the fact that the matters the ISC considers are not typically—in fact, not at all—partisan. It operates on a non-partisan basis,…25 Mar 2024HANSARDEaster and Christian CultureI endorse my hon. Friend the Member for Romford (Andrew Rosindell) in congratulating my hon. Friend the Member for Don Valley (Nick Fletcher) on securing this debate. He is…21 Mar 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillThe hon. and learned Lady is making, as she usually does, a considered argument based on her visit to Rwanda. I have not been there. I wonder whether, in making that argument, she…18 Mar 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillMy hon. Friend refers to the Australian system, which was known as Operation Sovereign Borders. It is true that the offshore processing that Australia enjoyed was only part of the…18 Mar 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillMy hon. Friend, as I and many other Members of this House did, sought to strengthen this Bill, including clause 4, knowing that people’s individual circumstances as they game the…18 Mar 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillI am extremely grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way on two occasions. He will remember that when we were debating an earlier piece of legislation with the then Minister, my…18 Mar 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillI am extremely grateful to my hon. Friend for again making a powerful argument about the sovereignty of Parliament, and he will understand why the sovereignty of Parliament is so…18 Mar 2024HANSARDBudget ResolutionsThe hon. Gentleman invited an intervention to clarify his position on national insurance. I wonder whether, rather than engaging in this knockabout, which I am rather enjoying—he…11 Mar 2024