To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department will issue guidance warning universities against collaborating with China’ s University of International Relations in the context of the MI5 alert on the China General Technology Research Institute.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department will issue guidance warning universities against collaborating with China’ s University of International Relations in the context of the MI5 alert on the China General Technology Research Institute.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has analysed whether funding from the China General Technology Research Institute to UK universities was directed through other organisations.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has analysed whether funding from the China General Technology Research Institute to UK universities was directed through other organisations.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of levels of foreign operations targeting domestic academic institutions.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of levels of foreign operations targeting domestic academic institutions.

Lords statement on the threats posed by Iran to British interests.

Lords statement on the threats posed by Iran to British interests.

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for the opportunity to ask further questions on this matter. The Prime Minister has confirmed that Iran is “highly likely” to have been behind the incident at RAF Fairford. Iran has aided and abetted the Houthis, and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for the opportunity to ask further questions on this matter. The Prime Minister has confirmed that Iran is “highly likely” to have been behind the incident at RAF Fairford. Iran has aided and abetted the Houthis, and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps...

I thank the noble Lord for those questions. On RAF Fairford, he is right that we are highly confident that this attack was co-ordinated in Iran and certainly directed by the IRGC. He is also right that Iran is responsible for direct attacks not just on the UK in the...

I thank the noble Lord for those questions. On RAF Fairford, he is right that we are highly confident that this attack was co-ordinated in Iran and certainly directed by the IRGC. He is also right that Iran is responsible for direct attacks not just on the UK in the...

My Lords, I support these measures. During the consideration of the National Security Act in this House, I said that these Benches would work on a cross-party basis on national security because we know that the need is going to be even greater. We also now know that Iran is...

My Lords, I support these measures. During the consideration of the National Security Act in this House, I said that these Benches would work on a cross-party basis on national security because we know that the need is going to be even greater. We also now know that Iran is...

The noble Lord, as usual, raises an excellent point. It is an issue and a difficulty in our continuing attempts to clamp down on Iranian activity. As we know, Iran funds, supports and arms proxies, from Lebanese Hezbollah to the Houthis, Hamas and militia groups in Iraq. It also sponsors...

The noble Lord, as usual, raises an excellent point. It is an issue and a difficulty in our continuing attempts to clamp down on Iranian activity. As we know, Iran funds, supports and arms proxies, from Lebanese Hezbollah to the Houthis, Hamas and militia groups in Iraq. It also sponsors...

My Lords, I commend the Government for the major sanctions already taken against malign actors sponsored or directed by Iran. Will the Minister accept that there must be no let-up whatever in the surveillance and, if necessary, further legislation because of the multiplicity of vehicles through which Iran is operating?...

My Lords, I commend the Government for the major sanctions already taken against malign actors sponsored or directed by Iran. Will the Minister accept that there must be no let-up whatever in the surveillance and, if necessary, further legislation because of the multiplicity of vehicles through which Iran is operating?...

Unsurprisingly, my noble friend is completely right about this. I am pleased to say that back in July—as noble Lords will remember—we updated the national security framework to enable us to incorporate state threats into the category of actions that we can take action against, which resulted in the designation...

Unsurprisingly, my noble friend is completely right about this. I am pleased to say that back in July—as noble Lords will remember—we updated the national security framework to enable us to incorporate state threats into the category of actions that we can take action against, which resulted in the designation...

My Lords, for decades, the Iranian Government have poured money into this country to destabilise our democratic institutions and sow dissent among community groups. Their contact with organised crime goes way beyond the inquiry currently being undertaken by the Charity Commission. Will the Minister care to tell the House the...

My Lords, for decades, the Iranian Government have poured money into this country to destabilise our democratic institutions and sow dissent among community groups. Their contact with organised crime goes way beyond the inquiry currently being undertaken by the Charity Commission. Will the Minister care to tell the House the...

The noble Lord is right. There is no single pot for this money, so it is difficult to provide a single estimate, but a significant amount of resource is flowing into not only extensions of the IRGC and IMCR—and other official Iranian bodies, as it were—but rather informal organisations. I...

The noble Lord is right. There is no single pot for this money, so it is difficult to provide a single estimate, but a significant amount of resource is flowing into not only extensions of the IRGC and IMCR—and other official Iranian bodies, as it were—but rather informal organisations. I...

My Lords, a practice that Iran has increasingly used in the past few years is the infiltration of charities and using them as fronts for its malign work. What measures can the Government take to make sure that, for example, hate preachers

who have connections to Tehran, and other malign...

My Lords, a practice that Iran has increasingly used in the past few years is the infiltration of charities and using them as fronts for its malign work. What measures can the Government take to make sure that, for example, hate preachers

who have connections to Tehran, and other malign...

My noble friend is right. This is a flank of Iranian operations that we need to keep an eye on and be vigilant of. We need to work with the Charity Commission and use the interplay of our national security legislation and other kinds of financial monitoring to ensure that...

My noble friend is right. This is a flank of Iranian operations that we need to keep an eye on and be vigilant of. We need to work with the Charity Commission and use the interplay of our national security legislation and other kinds of financial monitoring to ensure that...

My Lords, the RAF Fairford incident was quite extraordinary. On any level, it was very concerning. As the Prime Minister pointed out yesterday, there was every possibility that it was instigated by Iran. Seven extremely dangerous men were arrested and questioned, so why were they then released on bail?

My Lords, the RAF Fairford incident was quite extraordinary. On any level, it was very concerning. As the Prime Minister pointed out yesterday, there was every possibility that it was instigated by Iran. Seven extremely dangerous men were arrested and questioned, so why were they then released on bail?

The noble Lord is right. I have had briefings, and it seems highly likely that Iran was behind this and that it was co-ordinated from Iran. The police have confirmed that all the suspects are British citizens. On the bail release, decisions on whether to bail a suspect are made...

The noble Lord is right. I have had briefings, and it seems highly likely that Iran was behind this and that it was co-ordinated from Iran. The police have confirmed that all the suspects are British citizens. On the bail release, decisions on whether to bail a suspect are made...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment has she made of the level of national security risk posed by over 100 UK-linked academics identified as having contributed to projects funded by the China General Technology Research Institute in support of Chinese Ministry of State Security...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment has she made of the level of national security risk posed by over 100 UK-linked academics identified as having contributed to projects funded by the China General Technology Research Institute in support of Chinese Ministry of State Security...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment has she made of the level of risk of the China General Technology Research Institute supporting Chinese Ministry of State Security espionage by using British academics to spy on British AI research.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment has she made of the level of risk of the China General Technology Research Institute supporting Chinese Ministry of State Security espionage by using British academics to spy on British AI research.

Speaker's statement on the waiving of the sub judice rule in the Joshua Kerry cases. Ministerial statement on national security.

Speaker's statement on the waiving of the sub judice rule in the Joshua Kerry cases. Ministerial statement on national security.