Speeches by Jopp.

“In the Secretary of State’s wide consultation, did he consult General Sir Nick Parker, who suggested that there should be no further criminal investigations, inquests, inquiries or prosecutions unless there is new and compelling evidence that was not available at the time of the event?”

“6. What steps he is taking to replace the Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act 2023.”

“Have the Minister and the Veterans Minister now seen the defence investment plan?”

“I am grateful to my fellow member of the Defence Committee for giving way. If he supports new clause 5, tabled by my hon. Friend the Member for Huntingdon (Ben Obese-Jecty), will he vote for it?”

“I am grateful to my fellow member of the Defence Committee for giving way. If he supports new clause 5, tabled by my hon. Friend the Member for Huntingdon (Ben Obese-Jecty), will he vote for it?”

“I thank the Minister for his statement. The media are going to have a frenzy over the tittle-tattle of all this stuff during the next three days, but to my mind the whole Mandelson affair represents a very serious breach of national security. Can the Minister reassure me and the House that the Foreign Office and the se…”

“The pubs in Spelthorne are under the cosh. The Minister, in answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Broadland and Fakenham (Jerome Mayhew), said that a review of pubs and how they are valued for business rates purposes is ongoing. She will know that the review will not be relevant until 2029. Pubs are closing today. Yo…”

“When you got read on, was Mr Speaker one of the people who had been read on? You just said you were aware of the other parliamentarians. Was he one that you were aware of?”

“To follow that down to the nth degree, have the Joint Forces Command or the services been given specific new operating procedures, so that when they conduct expeditionary operations, they have it set out: “This is how we want you to disburse money, work alongside indigenous sources and employ civilians locally”?”

“Otherwise, you have learned the lessons at the policy level, but unless the troops have been told to do something different from what they did last time, you are just going to repeat it.”

“It depends how competent the checker was, what they were looking for and how they were doing it.”

“Okay. Let us take that to its logical conclusion. Have you, either technically or in human processes, put in place a methodology whereby whatever checks you were to do today would be discovered and not released?”

“When you were read on, presumably you were shown a list of the other people in the compartment so that you knew who you could discuss it with.”

“You did not hear anything about the data breach before you were read in.”

“No, indeed, but it is just about record keeping.”

“Sir Ben Wallace’s view was that a certain amount of consent and evade might have gone on, and he said to us that someone clearly “did not do their job” because he had put these new protocols in place. You just said that even if they were followed, they would not have found it. Were they followed or not?”

“Now that the review has concluded, part of the root cause of the problems there seems to be a failure to verify Triples’ identities. What lessons have we learned from that, what have you put in place in terms of process and lessons identified, and who is responsible for ensuring that we do not repeat something like tha…”

“Minister, you have just said in your evidence to us that you are not able to comment on the circumstances around the original data breach—you have said that in the last five minutes. But according to your written evidence, the main data breach took place despite “officials…following agreed processes”. Do you still stan…”

“Mr Wilson, when did you first become aware of the data breach?”

“No, clearly.”