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HANSARD UK TelecommunicationsMy hon. Friend is absolutely right to distinguish between confronting on issues such as human rights and having an open commercial relationship with China, clearly subject to the…14 Jul 2020HANSARD UK TelecommunicationsMy hon. Friend the Minister for Digital Infrastructure, who is sitting next to me, will be having exactly those further conversations with the devolved nations. I did not hear him…14 Jul 2020HANSARD UK TelecommunicationsAs ever, my hon. Friend is a robust advocate for his constituency. Exactly those conversations are going on now.14 Jul 2020HANSARD UK TelecommunicationsIt is not actually the UK Government who are procuring from Huawei; it is the mobile network operators who do so. However, the hon. Member’s point about modern slavery is correct,…14 Jul 2020HANSARD UK TelecommunicationsWe look at the security implications of whole supply chains, which is exactly what the National Cyber Security Centre has been doing—and that applies not just to Huawei but to the…14 Jul 2020HANSARD UK TelecommunicationsMy hon. Friend makes an important point about software versus hardware; indeed, that goes to some of the wider discussions around OpenRAN. We will of course always put national…14 Jul 2020HANSARD UK TelecommunicationsThere has been a failure of successive Governments both in the United Kingdom and around the world in ensuring that we have sovereign capability not just in telecoms vendors but…14 Jul 2020HANSARD UK TelecommunicationsAs my hon. Friend will be aware, the US and Australia have already taken such decisions, the Canadians have a similar analysis to us but have yet to take a decision on it, and New…14 Jul 2020HANSARD UK TelecommunicationsThe first point is that all that equipment will have been approved by the Huawei cell in GCHQ. Secondly, that is why we introduced the ban on Huawei from the core, and we have now…14 Jul 2020HANSARD UK TelecommunicationsAs ever, my right hon. and learned Friend, and predecessor, is correct. It is just the reality that telecoms networks will always be vulnerable, particularly to sophisticated…14 Jul 2020HANSARD UK TelecommunicationsMy hon. Friend is absolutely right to raise that point. The United Kingdom prides itself on the rule of law, a rules-based system and consistency, and that will remain the case,…14 Jul 2020HANSARD UK TelecommunicationsMy right hon. Friend raises the distinction between 4G, 3G and 5G. First, 5G is the new technology; it is the successor to 3G and 4G. Indeed, as he has said to this House…14 Jul 2020HANSARD UK TelecommunicationsObviously, the most bluntest of doing that is to ban the flow from the beginning of the year and then address the stock to 2027. In advance of that, we will also be imposing much…14 Jul 2020HANSARD UK TelecommunicationsThe right hon. Gentleman is absolutely right to make the point about open-source software, and we will certainly encourage that to happen. That greater transparency will help as…14 Jul 2020HANSARD UK TelecommunicationsMy hon. Friend raises an important point. Of course we will do that. It is just worth bearing in mind with all this that it is not just one decision, but the cumulative impact of…14 Jul 2020HANSARD UK TelecommunicationsToday’s announcement relates principally to the imposition of sanctions by the US Government and the consequences of that. The wider points the hon. Gentleman raises are likely to…14 Jul 2020HANSARD UK TelecommunicationsAs my hon. Friend knows, we signed the deal for the shared rural network just a few months ago. That was incredible progress, and we will continue to challenge it to go further…14 Jul 2020HANSARD UK TelecommunicationsThe right hon. Gentleman is right to highlight the wider risks to the network. As I have said repeatedly, both previously and today, we would be exceptionally naive to think that…14 Jul 2020HANSARD UK TelecommunicationsI thank my hon. Friend for his constructive comments. I genuinely understand the concerns about speed expressed by him and other Members. That point was considered extensively by…14 Jul 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Restarting Businesses and ActivitiesI would like to update the House on the next steps in delivering the UK Government’s covid-19 recovery strategy. These important steps forward have been made possible by the…13 Jul 2020