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HANSARDNational Security Bill (Twelfth sitting)I am assured that it is retrospective. I will, of course, be looking at this as part of the whole. [ Interruption. ] It is retrospective to 2001 for past offences. I will come…08 Sept 2022HANSARDNational Security Bill (Twelfth sitting)My understanding will be clarified in a letter to the right hon. Gentleman very shortly, unless it is clarified in the moments to come.08 Sept 2022HANSARDNational Security Bill (Twelfth sitting)I appreciate enormously what right hon. and hon. Members opposite have said. As I have been familiarising myself with the detail of this Bill, I will be asking questions and…08 Sept 2022HANSARDNational Security Bill (Twelfth sitting)Sounds about right to me.08 Sept 2022HANSARDNational Security Bill (Twelfth sitting)The right hon. Member and I will delight in having a conversation about this when I have written to him. The reality is that this is looking at an identifiable risk, which is from…08 Sept 2022HANSARDNational Security Bill (Twelfth sitting)I welcome Committee members’ comments. I notice that Occam has many cousins in this place, and that his razor is very sharp. On that basis, I merely mention that the issue is with…08 Sept 2022HANSARDNational Security Bill (Twelfth sitting)The hon. Lady asks a fair question. This is a plan for the future or rather a concern over the future, rather than provisions based on existing cases. It is the Government, I…08 Sept 2022HANSARDNational Security Bill (Twelfth sitting)The Bill contains measures that will enable a Minister to apply freezing and forfeiture orders where they assess that there is a real risk of the damages awarded being used to…08 Sept 2022HANSARDNational Security Bill (Twelfth sitting)The point of this House is to indicate opinion as well. I do know two judges, under whose roofs I have lived, and both of them left me in absolutely no doubt as to who takes the…08 Sept 2022HANSARDNational Security Bill (Twelfth sitting)First, I thank the hon. Member for Birmingham, Yardley for her comments. I appreciate the tone with which she approached this matter, and the intent with which she seeks to amend…08 Sept 2022HANSARDNational Security Bill (Twelfth sitting)Under the Bill, courts can formally be required to consider whether to reduce or withhold damages awarded when they find for the claimant in a national security claim where the…08 Sept 2022HANSARDNational Security Bill (Twelfth sitting)The clock does not start ticking until the notice is enforced. At that point, the timing begins. Question put and agreed to. Clause 56 accordingly ordered to stand part of the…08 Sept 2022HANSARDNational Security Bill (Twelfth sitting)Clause 56 gives the meaning of numerous terms used throughout this part of the Bill. Subsection (2) sets out that the Secretary of State can consider evidence that was relied upon…08 Sept 2022HANSARDNational Security Bill (Twelfth sitting)I will restrict myself to discussing clause 55 now rather than considering part 3, because clause 55 covers a particular use of legal aid, which is the use of legal aid in…08 Sept 2022HANSARDNational Security Bill (Twelfth sitting)I thank the hon. Member for Halifax; she can be assured that my commitment to protecting our security through electronic means, as through every other means, will endure. Clause…08 Sept 2022HANSARDNational Security Bill (Twelfth sitting)As the right hon. Member will be aware, in all such circumstances there will be a great variety, because what might be shared with somebody providing one service may not be the…08 Sept 2022HANSARDNational Security Bill (Twelfth sitting)I hope the right hon. Gentleman will forgive me, but I will have to write to him on that question. As for the question about the rank of the officer, a constable or any warranted…08 Sept 2022HANSARDGlobal Food SecurityI pay enormous tribute to the United Nations Secretary-General and all those who have been working on opening up the ports in southern Ukraine, and to the British Government for…06 Sept 2022HANSARD NATO Accession: Sweden and FinlandI pay tribute to my hon. Friend for announcing this to the House. It has been an important negotiation and conversation over recent weeks and months. My own meetings with the…06 Jul 2022HANSARDEvacuations from AfghanistanI pay tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for Basildon and Billericay (Mr Baron) for securing this urgent question. The points he makes about the British Council are absolutely…26 May 2022