Speeches by Jopp.

“Sir Ben Wallace’s view was that a certain amount of consent and evade might have gone on, and he said to us that someone clearly “did not do their job” because he had put these new protocols in place. You just said that even if they were followed, they would not have found it. Were they followed or not?”

“Minister, you have just said in your evidence to us that you are not able to comment on the circumstances around the original data breach—you have said that in the last five minutes. But according to your written evidence, the main data breach took place despite “officials…following agreed processes”. Do you still stan…”

“Mr Wilson, when did you first become aware of the data breach?”

“You did not hear anything about the data breach before you were read in.”

“When you were read on, presumably you were shown a list of the other people in the compartment so that you knew who you could discuss it with.”

“Okay. Let us take that to its logical conclusion. Have you, either technically or in human processes, put in place a methodology whereby whatever checks you were to do today would be discovered and not released?”

“It depends how competent the checker was, what they were looking for and how they were doing it.”

“Okay. We now have a bit of a problem, because, as you know, the main data breach was not the first; there was a prior data breach. It was brought to the Secretary of State for Defence’s attention, and he put in place additional protocols that were to be enacted. Specifically, all data was meant to be checked by two sup…”

“But you have said in your written evidence that the data breach took place despite “officials…following agreed processes”. Do you stand by that statement?”

“You felt sufficiently empowered to say in your written evidence that the breach took place despite “officials…following agreed processes”.”

“No, clearly.”

“Do you now have a process and systems in place so that every person sending out data to third parties knows exactly what they are sending out?”

“I thank the Secretary of State for his statement. Is he concerned that by reducing the relative punishment for youth offending relative to adult offending, he may inadvertently be making the young people of Spelthorne and across the country more attractive to be recruited by county lines gangs? That would clearly be an…”

“I thank the Secretary of State for his statement. Unlike others, I have not had the benefit of reading it beforehand, so I hope that he will forgive me when I say that it is very high protein and will take a little while to process. To pick up on the remarks he just made to the hon. Member for Plymouth Moor View (Fred …”

“I thank the Minister for his statement today, and for the gravity with which he has approached this statement and his job while others in Westminster are being distracted by noises off. I completely agree with him that it is totally unacceptable for a foreign state to be conducting shadow policing operations on UK soil…”

“The Prime Minister has used a lot of words about the defence investment plan. I think it was due in the autumn of last year, so when is he going to sign it?”

“That is an incredibly high-protein answer. Thank you very much indeed. It will take us a while to process all of it, but I am interested in coming back to your final point and this inherent tension behind what you described as the No. 1 priority, which is the war in Ukraine. If I can put words in your mouth, would it b…”

“Good morning, Professor Zysk, and thank you for your time today. We used to have a saying in the Army: “If you don’t understand what is happening, get a bigger map.” I would like you to put into context where, in the Russian psyche, the High North fits into its broader perception of itself and of its near and far abroa…”

“I thank the Minister for his statement, in which he said that “the Government will not publish information that undermines or threatens our country’s national security or international relations.” My question is: in whose judgment? Ultimately, is that the judgment of an official or of a Minister? If it is that of a Min…”

“My right hon. Friend is incredibly well informed on this subject. In his research, has he found any justification for public money being used in that way?”