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HANSARDWar Widows’ Pension SchemeThe Minister has not addressed their particular proposal, which is to say, “Reclassify this. It is not a pension. It is an award. It is something separate and special. It does not…30 Jan 2020HANSARD UK TelecommunicationsDo the Government accept something that I had difficulty getting their predecessor to accept—that Huawei should not be regarded as a private company because it is intimately…28 Jan 2020HANSARD Criminal LawI am grateful to the Minister for giving way again. May I offer a refinement on the suggestion made by my constituency neighbour, my right hon. Friend the Member for New Forest…28 Jan 2020HANSARD Automated Facial Recognition SurveillanceIn the age of smartphones, automated number recognition and especially CCTV, is it not already virtually impossible to preserve one’s privacy when one is out in public? As it is…27 Jan 2020HANSARD5G Network and HuaweiThe Minister hinted at a possible way out of this impasse for the Government when he referred to the Intelligence and Security Committee. I am the only Conservative Member of the…27 Jan 2020HANSARDPrevent ProgrammeWhen the Prevent review takes place, will the Minister ensure that particular attention is given to the intractable problem of proselytising within jails by people who have been…22 Jan 2020HANSARDBusiness of the HouseNear the start of the general election campaign, the Government made a statement that appeared to accept the recommendation in the Defence Committee’s report of 22 July about a…16 Jan 2020HANSARD IranThere was in the Soviet Union.13 Jan 2020HANSARDBritain in the WorldIn support of what my hon. Friend the Member for North Wiltshire (James Gray) has said, may I remind the Foreign Secretary that, in 2017-18, we had a national security capability…13 Jan 2020HANSARDBritain in the WorldYes, but the trouble is that no such grant was made to the BBC Monitoring Service, which is our principal source of what is called open-source intelligence—or, as the BBC prefers…13 Jan 2020HANSARDBritain in the WorldIt was genuinely a pleasure to hear the hon. Member for Stirling (Alyn Smith) express himself in such fluent and consensual terms. The fact that he says his party is willing to…13 Jan 2020HANSARDBritain in the WorldMy right hon. Friend is absolutely right. However, I have found through long experience that although it is a rather crude shorthand, this business of percentages is the one…13 Jan 2020HANSARDBritain in the WorldThe hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. He came in as if on cue, because I was just about to paint what I regard as the spectrum of threats that are necessary to give us the…13 Jan 2020HANSARDBritain in the WorldI do, and in this there is an important rebuttal of a point often made by those who think we can afford to cut out certain capabilities because we are members of an alliance and…13 Jan 2020HANSARD IranGiven the parallels between the ruthless and reckless behaviour of Iran, and the way in which the late and unlamented Soviet Union used to behave, does the Foreign Secretary…13 Jan 2020HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal Agreement) BillThe Minister mentioned the fact that the Bill will be going to the other place and the much more positive atmosphere that has applied in this place. Does he believe that that…09 Jan 2020HANSARDUK Special Forces: Iraq and AfghanistanBefore the hon. Gentleman concludes, may I ask whether he feels that a mechanism similar to that of the Intelligence and Security Committee, which conducts investigations into…07 Jan 2020HANSARDUK Special Forces: Iraq and Afghanistanrose —07 Jan 2020HANSARDMiddle East: SecurityPresident Trump has already thrown our Kurdish friends in the area under a metaphorical bus. Will the Secretary of State confirm whether the dramatic action that President Trump…07 Jan 2020HANSARDTopical QuestionsCongratulations, Mr Speaker. In the light of the Foreign Secretary’s rather dismissive response to his predecessor on defence spending, is he aware that the Defence Committee, on…05 Nov 2019