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Intelligence and Security Committee

The Foreign Secretary is praising the Government for having given us an investigator—we will gloss over the fact that it took about seven or eight months to get him on parade. However, what does he think of the fact that the Committee asked the Cabinet Office to let the investigator, in the interregnum between this Committee and the next, pursue two totally uncontroversial items—developed vetting and how it is handled in a different way by all three agencies—but the Cabinet Office said, "No. It wouldn't be proper for the Committee to do that until after the election"? Once again, that has been kicked into touch.