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Intelligence and Security Committee

That is one of the issues that everybody has wanted to look at, but my experience of the telecommunications industry is that those involved want to be as helpful and supportive as they possibly can; obviously, they often have commercial strictures and intellectual property issues that they want to address. No, I do not accept that that is one of the major obstacles. The major obstacle relates to protecting the integrity of the intelligence that we garner as well as protecting the possibility of gathering intelligence in future. That is the matter in hand. My right hon. Friend the Member for Knowsley, North and Sefton, East (Mr. Howarth) is a splendid person. Is he standing again? He must be.