Speeches by Jopp.

“As I understand it, the purpose of the regulations is to take a pragmatic approach so that developers can develop inshore and offshore wind more quickly by providing a wider range of compensation. If the Government have a change of heart about the development of Rosebank and Jackdaw, does my hon. Friend expect them to …”

“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?”

“It is hard to believe that it was 34 years ago that one of these proxy bombs was driven into my checkpoint in west Belfast. I remember it like it was yesterday. I agree with the Secretary of State that we must find the perpetrators of this evil act, and I, too, encourage the community to come forward, because that is w…”

“I thank the Minister for his statement and for prior sight of it. This is indeed a serious breach. In another life, I was the chief operating officer of a tech company and we, too, had data breaches. We found that the best way to deal with them was to have developed a culture of openness and honesty in the organisation…”

“Q8. Last Thursday, a man was arrested in Laleham in my constituency. He had been approaching children at the primary school, having been warned by the police not to do so. He was taken into police custody and, after further examination, detained under the Mental Health Act. Unbelievably, he was living in an unlicensed …”

“You said in answer to one of those questions that some of the range of people were inside the compartment and some were not. How does that work when you are doing your cross-Whitehall triangulation and you want to talk to someone in the Home Office? Are you presented with the full list of people who are signed on, so y…”

“Did you have the list of everyone who was in the compartment?”

“But other nations’ intelligence agencies?”

“You knew a man who could.”

“So you knew going into the room that they were either in or out?”

“Going back to the conversation you were having with Ms Baker, you take multiple sources and try to establish that the picture you are seeing is as full as it can be. Did you triangulate with other friendly intelligence agencies? Did you have access to what they were saying and reporting to do a sanity check?”

“I completely take your point that we would have to ask the MOD folks about their contingency plan, but you are inside the machine, and your name is going to come out because you knew about all this. From a personal point of view, did you understand the mechanics? Could the judge have, all of a sudden, at one of these r…”

“Were you given any sense of urgency?”

“You were unaware of the super-injunction?”

“How does that work? Do they say, “If you were to take on this work, you will need to be signed on to a particular box,” and you say, “I am happy to do that”?”

“Did the MOD say, “We envisage it lasting this long,” or was it an iterative process, whereby you set the work? It is a real tip-of-the-iceberg issue; you might have thought, “What else am I going to uncover when I go through this?” What were the discussions about time balancing?”

“We have had a couple of evidence sessions that slightly conflicted with one another. They painted a picture where, every time the MOD went back to reiterate the super-injunction with the Court, the Court would take its own view on the risk envelope and come back with an increased number of people who had to be taken by…”

“So you were more conscious of the risk downrange than of any, as it were, political risk of the courts here putting an increasing burden on the UK to take people.”

“Indeed. Thank you.”

“Forgive me if I am eating anyone else’s sandwiches, but what was your reaction when you first learnt about the super-injunction and the totality of the issue?”