Speeches by Jopp.

“Will the Minister give way?”

“Pride in Place funding is about £5 billion directed at our most deprived areas. I think it is worked out on a constituency basis, and that constituencies have to hit a point on two indices of deprivation to qualify, and must therefore be what the Government call “double deprived”. I have significant pockets of deprivat…”

“It is lovely to see the Secretary of State; the last time I saw her was in the Strangers Bar, when she was pulling a pint of Rebellion Overthrow—I can’t imagine why that stuck in my mind! The River Thames scheme has been in abeyance, essentially—in mid-project review—since May last year. Will the Secretary of State ple…”

“The Minister came back with an answer on proportionality, saying that it is not for Government to decide what is essential. He missed out the next bit, which is, “We’re just going to regulate critical suppliers and pass laws about them, but we don’t know how many there are, and we don’t know how much the policy is goin…”

“As I am sure my right hon. Friend remembers, once the Bloomberg leak had happened, many of us said to the Government that now that those things had turned out to be true, we should turn Lord Peter Mandelson inside out as if he had been outed as a spy; surely, had the Government done so, the things that were released ov…”

“Q Brian, from your side, what about, say, PPE, gloves or blood? There must be other things that are non-data that are, nevertheless, essential services. Brian Miller: I do not want to step out of my lane. There will be clinical stuff that absolutely would be essential. I would not be able to speak in any depth on that …”

“Q I want to make sure I have understood exactly. Is the regulator going to tell you who your operators of essential services are, or are you going to tell the regulator? Brian Miller: I think we would work with the regulator, but we are looking for more detail in any secondary legislation that comes along. We have read…”

“Q To come back to Dr Spencer’s original question about the scope of the legislation, the current situation, as I understand it, is that there is a carve-out for small and medium-sized enterprises because we do not want to put too much regulatory burden on them, but, under the new proposed legislation, operators of esse…”

“Q Going back to our conversation with the head of IT security and compliance at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and what could be designated an operator of essential services, and our subsequent conversation with Palo Alto, how do you envision that bit of the Bill working? Taking Glasgow as an example, while neither of u…”

“Q One of my favourite aphorisms is, “Institutions get the behaviours they reward.” We had a cry from Amazon Web Services this morning about how, when a regulator deals with a company in the event of a cyber-security attack, please remember you are dealing with a victim. I have dealt with the ICO before. Maybe it was th…”

“Q I want to come back to that point. Chris, you said something like, “SMEs find it very difficult, if not impossible, to bear the regulatory burden, so we have to be very careful when designating SMEs as operators of essential services.” To me, that says that you think the Bill, as currently drafted, will place too muc…”

“Q To be very clear, the three regulators we had here today were the Information Commissioner, Ofgem and Ofcom. If they thought that they had a locus because of something that that hospital did, all three would do the step test, they would come up with their bucket of SMEs that they wanted to bring into scope, and those…”

“Q That is a very clear answer on the steps that have to be followed. Do you envisage that each regulator in, for example, the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde will follow the steps from their perspective? The first one might produce 20 SMEs that need to be in scope, and the next one might produce another 20, and so on. Th…”

“Q Sorry, I misspoke. I mean an SME that is deemed a critical supplier. Who is going to deem them so? Which of the many regulators at play in that hospital is going to decide who is a critical supplier? Kanishka Narayan: There are two things to say on this. There is at least a four-step test on the face of the Bill for …”

“Do either of the other witnesses have anything to say on that? Jill Broom indicated dissent. Dr Sanjana Mehta indicated dissent.”

“I meant operators of essential services. Kanishka Narayan: The Bill effectively specifies operators of essential services as large participants in the essential services sectors. I think that that definition is very straightforward. The hospital in this question would be an operator of an essential service. If the ques…”

“Q On the question of closer alignment, can you give us a sense from the international picture of whether certain regulatory regimes raise the barrier to terrorists or criminals so high that they are left alone? Is that a national thing or a company-based thing? Where are the flow lines of attack and threat? Is it on a …”

“Q I appreciate that. My question was about where that leads them to attack, on the basis that they will take the route of least resistance. Where is that? Is that an international thing, a national thing or a corporate thing? Stuart McKean: It is probably across all three, to be quite honest with you. It is very depend…”

“When the Prime Minister sacked Lord Mandelson as the American ambassador, Ministers came to the Dispatch Box and I pointed out to them that for the whole time he was our ambassador he had been subject to politically fatal kompromat, which left him open to leverage—as it finally played out. I said that if we had found o…”

“I just want clarification on the Members of this House who were formally sanctioned. The Prime Minister said: “President Xi said to me that means all parliamentarians are free to travel to China”. Does that mean that they are no longer legally sanctioned, and did he get that in writing?”