Speeches by Jarvis.

“I do not agree with the hon. Lady’s analysis with regard to consolidation. This Government will always work to ensure that the British public are safer—that is our job, our abiding mission and the first responsibility of Government. I am confident that the decision that has been taken, with the mitigations in place, wi…”

“The right hon. Gentleman might roll his eyes, but he was a Minister in the previous Government, and he has served in this House for a number of years. He knows that under his Conservative Government there was a complete lack of consistency with regard to our policy on China. This is a significant geostrategic challenge…”

“As with any embassy, either in this country or around the world—let us not be naive about the fact that Britain has embassies right around the world—the Vienna convention lays down the way in which different Governments should behave with regard to the conduct of their diplomatic presences. We take our responsibilities…”

“This is where the rubber hits the road, so that is an entirely fair challenge. I met in London the chief exec who co-ordinates activity across London, and was with a chief constable and a deputy mayor for policing in Greater Manchester, specifically to talk about such issues. The Home Office Prevent advisers do incredi…”

“I want to put something very briefly on the record, because I feel very strongly about this. I am the Minister with responsibility for the National Crime Agency, and that is a very comprehensive description of what we are doing. I would stress the importance of the transnational element of all this, and working with ke…”

“It is not. It is about the importance of engaging confidently and pragmatically, in a way that will enable us to take opportunities where they present themselves and where it is in our national security. As I made clear in my earlier remarks, that is not just about economic co-operation; there are other areas where we …”

“The hon. Member asks me what that means. I hope he will understand that it would be unwise of me to get into the technical detail of the mitigations that we are seeking to put in place. Surely he understands that the Security Minister is not able to get into the guts and the detail of precisely what we are going to do—…”

“I am answering the question. I have a huge amount of respect for Members who have served for a long time, and particularly those who have chaired the ISC. We need to find a mechanism to ensure that Members like the right hon. Member for New Forest East (Sir Julian Lewis) have access to some of this information, so that…”

“I am grateful to the hon. Lady, not least because she came along in good faith this morning and attended the briefing at our invitation. I hope she found it helpful. I am acutely conscious that there are technical details that the House will understand I am not able to get into, and that is why we took the opportunity …”

“Try though I might, there was never going to be a scenario where I would be able to satisfy the right hon. Gentleman today in what I have been able to say. He and I have had exchanges on these matters on many occasions. It is completely intolerable and unacceptable that he and members of his family have been sanctioned…”

“I am disappointed that the hon. Gentleman has not asked me about the FIRS—I have a very good response for him that I will not be able to give now. He is not quite right to say that I quoted extensively from the planning document. I did not—I referenced it only very fleetingly and then explained why that was the case. H…”

“The hon. Gentleman has expressed an opinion, and he is entirely within his rights to do that, but I hope he understands that I am also entirely within my rights to point out that his opinion is not backed up by the intelligence services or the security agencies, which have looked incredibly carefully at the detail of t…”

“The right hon. Lady has seen the letter that has been published today by the director general—”

“I am grateful to the Father of the House, who has consistently made this point; this is at least the third time that I have heard him raise it. I hope that he heard the point I made earlier—I looked at him purposefully—about the question that he asks, but let me take this opportunity to say that the bounties are comple…”

“It is a fair challenge. There isn’t a kind of formal taskforce, as such, but I can genuinely reassure you of the Prime Minister’s personal interest in this, and the Home Secretary’s.”

“There are still the structures of the National Security Council, which provide the most appropriate forum to discuss these matters with Cabinet members and with—”

“Again, I think that is an entirely fair challenge. I think we made a bit of progress, which is obviously welcome, but clearly these are incredibly influential entities in their own right with massive resource. The more that we can join up our work with our international allies, the better. It is good to see a bit of pr…”

“I am grateful, as always, to the right hon. Gentleman—”

“I am casting my mind back to that time. To be fair to David Cameron, he invested a huge amount of time in the processes of the National Security Council. I can say that the Prime Minister is personally invested in these issues; I know that he takes a very keen interest, and I know that there is a regular conversation b…”

“We would be very happy to do that. I just want to emphasise, again, the importance of joining it up across Government. While the Home Office is the departmental lead, my strong view is that, actually, it will only ever be made to work if we have the buy-in of other Departments. Health is a key contributor to that proce…”