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Justice and Security Bill [Lords]

As one of the two junior Ministers who took the Secret Intelligence Service Bill through the House and asked the then head of MI6 whether he really meant this, I can take his point. But the simple truth is that we have to live up to those standards of accountability, and that means open justice wherever we can have it.

One of the interesting divides that has taken place in all this is almost a generational one. We have had closed material procedures only since—

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
559 c717 
Session
2012-13
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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