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Debate on Monday, 21 November 2011, in the House of Commons, led by Malcolm Rifkind. The answering member was Baroness May of Maidenhead.

Intelligence and Security Committee

Debate on a motion that this House has considered the matter of the 2010-11 Annual Report from the Intelligence and Security Committee (Cm 8114). Agreed to on question. [Relevant documents: The Government's Response (Cm 8168) to the 2010-11 Annual Report from the Intelligence and Security Committee is relevant. The Justice and Security Green Paper (Cm 8194) is relevant in so far as it relates to the Intelligence and Security Committee.]

Secondary information

Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
536 c63-128 
Session
2010-12
Department
Home Office
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Related items
Justice and security green paper.
Wednesday, 19 October 2011
Command papers
House of Commons
Proceeding contributions
Julian Lewis | 536 c100 (Link to this contribution) Before the right hon. Gentleman moves on, he might wish to draw the House's attention to paragraph 3...
Paul Goggins | 536 c100-2 (Link to this contribution) It is, although it is also fair to say that there are degrees of involvement. Although there may be ...
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Malcolm Rifkind | 536 c104 (Link to this contribution) May I say that we have been in touch with the SIS and have asked it to respond on exactly the points...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 536 c73 (Link to this contribution) I have been thinking carefully about what my right hon. and learned Friend said regarding a change i...
Malcolm Rifkind | 536 c73-4 (Link to this contribution) I can give my hon. Friend a very straightforward answer: all members of the Committee are subject to...
Hazel Blears | 536 c74 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. and learned Gentleman has talked about balance in relation to the Green Paper. If the...
Malcolm Rifkind | 536 c74-5 (Link to this contribution) Yes. The right hon. Lady is a very senior member of the Intelligence and Security Committee. In the ...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 536 c75-6 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Kensington (Sir Malcolm Rifkind) fo...
Hazel Blears | 536 c76 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Lady is detailing the nature of the threat that we still face in this country. On tha...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 536 c76-7 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Lady is right to say that the security of the Olympic games is obviously a key concer...
Keith Vaz | 536 c77 (Link to this contribution) Is that not why the National Security Council is so important? It brings together Cabinet Ministers ...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 536 c77-8 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for making that point. It is indeed the case that the Nati...
Malcolm Rifkind | 536 c84-5 (Link to this contribution) I am extremely grateful to the right hon. Lady for the additional comments that she has volunteered....
Yvette Cooper | 536 c85 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. and learned Gentleman is absolutely right that there are precedents. In fact, Lord Ki...
Yvette Cooper | 536 c80-4 (Link to this contribution) I, too, welcome the Intelligence and Security Committee's annual report and the work that the Commit...
Julian Lewis | 536 c87-9 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted that the right hon. Lady makes that point. It is too early to have concerns about the...
Lord Murphy of Torfaen | 536 c89-92 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to be able to make a brief contribution to this important debate. Let me start by...
Julian Lewis | 536 c85-6 (Link to this contribution) I begin by reassuring the shadow Home Secretary that, in my limited experience—I have been a member ...
Hazel Blears | 536 c87 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is extremely knowledgeable in this field because of his experience before enterin...
Keith Vaz | 536 c94-5 (Link to this contribution) It is always a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington (Tom Brake), w...
Malcolm Rifkind | 536 c68 (Link to this contribution) I very much welcome what my hon. Friend says. It is timely, because the Intelligence and Security Co...
Mark Field | 536 c67 (Link to this contribution) I entirely endorse what my right hon. and learned Friend says. We feel strongly that there is a risk...
Malcolm Rifkind | 536 c66-7 (Link to this contribution) I certainly agree that serious issues came to prominence during those years, some of which were the ...
Philip Hollobone | 536 c67 (Link to this contribution) I am enjoying my right hon. and learned Friend's speech immensely. In his Committee's report, in rec...
Malcolm Rifkind | 536 c67 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for his contribution to the work of the Committee. He and I visited GCHQ and ...
Mark Field | 536 c65 (Link to this contribution) Although we accept that some radical change is clearly overdue, which will, we hope, be put in place...
Malcolm Rifkind | 536 c64 (Link to this contribution) I not only acknowledge that but can say that both the activity of the hon. Gentleman and many repres...
Tobias Ellwood | 536 c66 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. and learned Friend talks about the change in attitude and style in the work of our sec...
Malcolm Rifkind | 536 c65 (Link to this contribution) Yes, there are crucial requirements and anyone will understand why that is the case. The identity of...
David Winnick | 536 c64 (Link to this contribution) The Chair of the Committee mentioned that before 1994, there was no debate—or at least no acceptance...
Julian Lewis | 536 c73 (Link to this contribution) On operations, does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that practice in the past has been—and is...
George Howarth | 536 c72 (Link to this contribution) We are all nominated by the Prime Minister, but it is important to note that this House has to endor...
Malcolm Rifkind | 536 c69-72 (Link to this contribution) Even our worst enemies have not suggested that, as far as I am aware. I of course entirely confirm t...
Julian Lewis | 536 c69 (Link to this contribution) For the sake of clarity, before some reporter's pen runs away with him, will my right hon. and learn...
Malcolm Rifkind | 536 c68 (Link to this contribution) That is one of the great dilemmas that Governments have faced and, I suspect, continue to face. It i...
Richard Graham | 536 c68 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. and learned Friend confirm that ministerial responsibility for cyber-security wil...
Malcolm Rifkind | 536 c68 (Link to this contribution) There may be some truth in what my hon. Friend says, and obviously these matters must be taken on bo...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 536 c68 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that the situation with cyber attacks is likely to get w...
Keith Vaz | 536 c63 (Link to this contribution) I welcome what the right hon. and learned Gentleman has said about this important matter. When the S...
Malcolm Rifkind | 536 c63-4 (Link to this contribution) The heads of the agencies have been travelling to the Intelligence and Security Committee to give ev...
Malcolm Rifkind | 536 c63 (Link to this contribution) I am privileged, as Chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee, to introduce this debate on...
Tobias Ellwood | 536 c120-3 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Salford and Eccles (Hazel Blears). She speaks w...
George Howarth | 536 c110-4 (Link to this contribution) In my case, yes. [Interruption.] We are both certainly young in our outlook. I should like to echo ...
Hazel Blears | 536 c114-20 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to follow my right hon. Friend the Member for Knowsley (Mr Howarth), who has ...
James Brokenshire | 536 c128 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid that I will not, because I have three minutes left in which to get through a range of ot...
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 536 c108-10 (Link to this contribution) I see members of the Committee, both past and present, nodding in agreement. I talked about indepen...
David Winnick | 536 c108 (Link to this contribution) When I made my criticism of the Committee, I cited what the Joint Committee on Human Rights reported...
Malcolm Rifkind | 536 c72-3 (Link to this contribution) The House has to give its view, but I say to the right hon. Gentleman, who also serves on the Commit...
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 536 c108 (Link to this contribution) That is a matter of judgment. Members of the Committee sign the Official Secrets Act and are subject...
Tobias Ellwood | 536 c78 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is right to say that the Cabinet Office leads on that, and that co-ordination i...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 536 c78-80 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an extremely important point. There is an onus on all of us who are using the i...
Malcolm Rifkind | 536 c73 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises a very important point. In making our recommendations to the Government—the ma...
Paul Goggins | 536 c97-9 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Gloucester (Richard Graham). He spoke about his pride...
Richard Ottaway | 536 c102-3 (Link to this contribution) I apologise to the House for my late arrival and for missing the opening speeches, but the Foreign A...
Richard Graham | 536 c95-7 (Link to this contribution) It is with great pleasure that I rise to make my first contribution to this important annual debate ...
David Winnick | 536 c105-6 (Link to this contribution) I shall follow previous speakers to some extent, particularly the latter remarks of the Chair of the...
Julian Lewis | 536 c103 (Link to this contribution) I am listening to my hon. Friend's speech with great attention and I think that another word of prai...
Richard Ottaway | 536 c103-4 (Link to this contribution) I completely agree, and I have always been hugely impressed by the vast quantity of information. Whe...
Richard Ottaway | 536 c104-5 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to hear that because that presents a channel—certainly in the current circumstances, ...
Tom Brake | 536 c92-4 (Link to this contribution) I echo the thanks of various Members to the members of the intelligence and security services for th...
George Howarth | 536 c106 (Link to this contribution) Although what my hon. Friend says about some of the personalities involved is undoubtedly true, does...
Diana Johnson | 536 c123-6 (Link to this contribution) I pay tribute to all those who work in the security and intelligence agencies for the important work...
James Brokenshire | 536 c126-8 (Link to this contribution) We have had an important and wide-ranging debate that has illustrated how important it is that the p...
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 536 c107-8 (Link to this contribution) I should begin with an apology because it has been my misfortune to miss a large part of the debate ...
David Winnick | 536 c106-7 (Link to this contribution) Yes. I do not think it would help our national security. I hope that satisfies my right hon. Friend....
George Howarth | 536 c110 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to follow the right hon. and learned Member for North East Fife (Sir Menzies ...
Subjects
Disclosure of information Counter-terrorism Cooperation Consultants Cybercrime Finance Intelligence services GCHQ Intelligence and Security Committee Judicial review National security Parliamentary scrutiny Staff Espionage Olympic Games 2012 Mohamed, Binyam Defence Intelligence
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