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Whitsun Adjournment

I had not realised that I was going to rattle so many cages today, but I should like to finish my thought process on this point. The fact is that the US Congress, France's National Assembly, Canada's House of Commons and Australia's House of Representatives all address this subject: it is a matter of pride for them. They find ways to ensure that the members of their respective committees are suitable and appropriate, but they are appointed not by the head of the security and intelligence services—that is, by each country's equivalent of the Prime Minister or the head of the CIA—but by their Parliament or Congress.