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Protection of Critical Infrastructure

To follow up my earlier intervention and that of the hon. Member for Buckingham (John Bercow), given that the documents that we have seen include a section that, it says, sets out the EU justification for the programme, including the growing number of member states preparing their own approaches to critical infrastructure, the need to eliminate weak links, and the additional costs implied, I hope that the Minister will go back to the Commission and say, ““You think this is justified. Now give us the examples that show that we need this now.”” Without examples, the argument is theoretical, and the case is not strongly made.