My hon. Friend is making an excellent speech. May I return him to the procurement point about what is national security and what is not? He will know, as I do, that if we go to Hong Kong we can see that HSBC, for instance, is already, in a way, in league with the authorities. The changes it is imposing include freezing the pension funds of people who are over here under British National (Overseas) passports and, at times, freezing their bank accounts. It says that it has to obey the Chinese Government. Is that not what we are saying? There is no particular definition. They are all operating, once these companies are in China, under the rule.
Procurement Bill [Lords]
Proceeding contribution from
Iain Duncan Smith
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 13 June 2023.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Procurement Bill [Lords].
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