Telecommunications (Security) Bill

My Lords, we move into the scrutiny of the Bill, which seeks to balance the need for the United K...

My Lords, I apologise to my colleagues that I was not able to speak at Second Reading. I am quite...

My Lords, I want to say a few words on this. It is highly relevant that we keep a close eye, but ...

This is an interesting debate—one that we started about a year ago. During the summer, on the the...

My Lords, this is my first Grand Committee appearance, and I hope that I do not disappoint the no...

I thank all noble Lords for these amendments, which seek to strengthen the resilience of our tele...

I have received a request to speak after the Minister, so I call the noble Lord, Lord Fox.

I congratulate the Minister on introducing the Barran scale of nuance, which will no doubt become...

I may need to write to the noble Lord about the technical details he has set out. I think for the...

I thank all noble Lords who have participated in the debate and the Minister for her replies. I t...

Moved by

Lord Clement-Jones

2: Clause 1, page 1, line 15, leave out “anything” and in...

My Lords, I hope the Committee will forgive me if I move on to drier but—I hope the Committee wil...

My Lords, I had the privilege of being an RAF pilot. The instructions we received as pilots in me...

My Lords, I rather agree with the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, on this matter. The Bill is mea...

My Lords, in response to the noble Earl, Lord Erroll, I say that it is also a huge issue when you...

This is a really important discussion. I do not want to speak for too long but the noble Earl, Lo...

My Lords, the Committee will recall that the UK Telecoms Supply Chain Review Report in July 2019 ...

I have received one request to speak after the Minister, from the noble Lord, Lord Fox.

The Minister brought up the review, which was very clear that there are huge potential market fai...

I hear the noble Lord’s concerns. We will of course take back his comments and reflect on them ag...

My Lords, I see a slight chink of light, perhaps, that may be opened by opened by a meeting with ...

We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 7. Before I call the mover, the noble Lord, Lor...

Moved by

Lord Clement-Jones

7: Clause 1, page 3, line 22, at end insert—

“(1A) ...

My Lords, I beg to move Amendment 7 and will speak also to Amendment 12. New Section 105B introdu...

My Lords, I am sorry that the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, does not like my analogy of flying....

My Lords, I can see that it might be useful to avoid scrutiny sometimes when we have to finesse d...

My Lords, harmony is breaking out across the Room, with the possible exception of the Minister. I...

My Lords, I speak to Amendment 11 in my name and welcome Amendments 7 and 12 in the names of the ...

My Lords, I have heard with interest the contributions of your Lordships regarding the parliament...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for that rather depressing reply. I also thank the noble Lord, Lor...

My Lords, the Grand Committee will now resume. I think we were just about concluding the remarks ...

I might take that hint, but there is still a little bit of water to flow under the bridge.

...

Moved by

Baroness Merron

8: Clause 2, page 4, line 30, at end insert—

“(7) In m...

My Lords, I move Amendment 8 in my name and welcome the similar Amendments 9 and 19 in the names ...

My Lords, I am delighted to be on the same page as the noble Baroness on the insertion of a techn...

My Lords, the Grand Committee is resumed—third time lucky. I call the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jo...

My Lords, I hope I am demonstrating the agility of which the Minister is so fond. As I said earli...

My Lords, I want to speak on this issue as I remember mentioning it at Second Reading. There is a...

In quick response to, or doubling up on, the noble Earl, Lord Erroll, my understanding is that th...

My Lords, I am grateful to noble Lords who have taken part in the debate on these amendments, whi...

I emailed the clerk, asking to speak after the Minister.

I call the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones—sorry.

I must admit that I am somewhat baffled by the Minister’s response. The argument on the technical...

I thank the Deputy Chairman and apologise for speaking across him. I am a bit intrigued by the co...

First, if I may, I will take back the point made by the noble Lord, Lord Fox, about new Section 1...

I thank all noble Lords for their contributions. In view of the pandemic restrictions on the numb...

Moved by

Lord Clement-Jones

10: Clause 3, page 5, line 12, at end insert—

“(d) ...

My Lords, in its evidence to the Bill in the Commons, BT said:

“we believe greater clarity ...

My Lords, I want to say a few words on this because the key words “undue burden” stand out. It is...

The undue burden point touched on by the noble Earl, Lord Erroll, is really important. On a previ...

I thank the noble Lords, Lord Fox and Lord Clement-Jones, for these amendments. As before, it is ...

I thank the noble Lords, Lord Fox and Lord Clement-Jones, for these amendments, and all noble Lor...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for that—he pierced through the gloom of the afternoon, giving an ...

Moved by

Baroness Merron

13: Clause 4, page 7, line 26, at end insert “within 30 days...

My Lords, Amendment 13 seeks to speak up for consumers and to probe possibilities as to how we ma...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 14 and 15. I wanted to say on the last group of amendments ...

My Lords, I put my name down to speak to this because the problem with putting a fixed time perio...

My Lords, this is an interesting and nuanced—to coin a word we used earlier—debate. I am probably...

I call the noble Baroness, Lady Barran.

Sorry, I have not quite finished.

I would call Amendment 15 a “good manners” amendment. If ...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Merron, and the noble Lords, Lord Clement-Jones and Lo...

I have received a request to speak after the Minister from the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones.