National Security Bill

With this it will be convenient to discuss the following:

Lords amendment 26, and amendment...

Let me start on a personal note by thanking the Clerk who is sitting in his place and congratulat...

Does the Minister agree that we must exclude assistance in torture from the scope of defence, to ...

The hon. Member will know that that is a matter for the Foreign Office in its dealings with other...

I have raised on a number of occasions in debates and Committees the use of cryptocurrencies, and...

The hon. Gentleman, who is a friend, is right to highlight this issue as it is true that cryptocu...

But earlier the Minister was praying in aid Lord Carlile, saying what a wonderful job he had done...

The hon. Member has formerly been very kind about the work that we have done together, such as on...

Is the Minister saying that small grassroots organisations, many of them associational organisati...

The hon. Member underplays what the amendment would do. It would be much more than simply filling...

I am grateful to my right hon. Friend—and he is a friend—who I know is saying what he has to say....

As usual, my right hon. Friend makes his point cogently. In reality, the MOU requires amendment b...

Will the Minister give way again?

I will, because the hon. Gentleman is an old friend.

The Minister will be aware of Lords amendment 130, which relates to the sovereign base areas of A...

The hon. Gentleman has tempted me to approach the issue a little early in my speech, but let me p...

I call the shadow Minister.

We on the Labour Benches are in no doubt about the importance of the Bill. Transnational repressi...

For the record, I think I should say that during her very short tenure the current Prime Minister...

I am grateful to the Chair of the ISC for that clarification. It was indeed a short tenure, and w...

I call the Chair of the Intelligence and Security Committee.

It is clear from the opening contributions of both Front Benchers that there is a considerable de...

I very much agree with everything my right hon. Friend has said. Does he agree that we will need ...

I am extremely grateful to my right hon. Friend, a fellow member of the Committee, because that i...

The right hon. Gentleman is highlighting what he sees as benefits, but does he agree that clauses...

My understanding of the legislation—someone from the Intelligence and Security Committee is due t...

The problem is that classified information sometimes has to be used to prove something like this,...

My right hon. and gallant Friend underlines my point, which is that, in proving damage has been d...

I absolutely agree that we should be guarding against this. Does the right hon. Gentleman agree t...

I agree that it will always be difficult to man the defences sufficiently against people who appl...

Does my right hon. Friend agree that one curiosity of this debate is that earlier this afternoon ...

Absolutely. My right hon. and learned Friend is far too modest to say that his input, as a former...

In short, we have to revise the MOU because at the moment we on the ISC cannot do our job properl...

I am grateful for that strong support. It should not have been necessary for people in the upper ...

As a relatively new member of the ISC, I am finding it extremely perplexing to try to understand ...

I am very grateful for the hon. Gentleman’s support and I take this opportunity to pay tribute to...

indicated assent.

I see that he is nodding. Should he wish to elaborate on that a little more, that would be even m...

Before I call the SNP spokesperson, let me say that, obviously, this debate is time limited, and ...

Once again, it is a pleasure to have the opportunity to scrutinise what we recognise as an extrem...

I wish to go back to the point that I made to the Chair of the ISC, who is a very good friend and...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for intervening. His constituent’s case is one that I had in mind...

I am grateful for the opportunity to speak in this debate, and also grateful to my right hon. Fri...

I will speak to amendment (c) in my name and in those of the right hon. Member for Haltemprice an...

I offer my support to the right hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland (Mr Carmichael) for his amend...

I start where my right hon. Friend the Member for Hayes and Harlington (John McDonnell) finished....

First, I thank the hon. Member for Halifax (Holly Lynch) for the contribution she made and the sp...

I accept the Minister’s points on the Official Secrets Act 1989 and the fact that it is complicat...

My right hon. Friend tempts me in a direction I would love to go in, but in the minutes I have le...