Speeches by Collins.

“Crucially, this is about backing British tech as well as working internationally. Collaborative sovereignty would make us stronger partners globally. That is why we have tabled new clause 13—I urge the House to vote for it—which would require the Government to establish a digital sovereignty strategy that sets out clea…”

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“New Clause 14”

“Register of foreign powers for the purposes of Part 4”

““(1) For the purposes of informing action taken under Part 4 of this Act, the Secretary of State must by regulations, and within six months of the passing of this Act, establish and subsequently maintain a register of foreign powers that the Secretary of State believes present a risk to the United Kingdom’s critical ne…”

“(2) Foreign powers determined by the Secretary of State as eligible for inclusion on the register under subsection (1) must include states which have been confirmed by GCHQ as posing a risk to the security or resilience of the network or information systems of one or more operators of an essential service or critical s…”

“The people of Tring have spoken. This petition, signed by over 500 residents, rejects the top-down, developer-led approach to planning from this Government, which threatens to impose significant large-scale development on their community with little regard for its character, infrastructure or precious environment. That…”

“(ii) in exercising the functions of those posts, are subject to the direction or control of, or significantly influenced by, the party.”—(Dr Ben Spencer.)”

“(b) a foreign government, or part of a foreign government;”

“(a) the sovereign or other head of a foreign state in their public capacity;”

“(c) an agency or authority of a foreign government, or of part of a foreign government;”

“(d) an authority responsible for administering the affairs of an area within a foreign country or territory, or persons exercising the functions of such an authority; or”

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“(e) a political party which is a governing political party of a foreign government. A political party is a governing political party of a foreign government if persons holding political or official posts in the foreign government or part of the foreign government—”

“(i) hold those posts as a result of, or in the course of, their membership of the party, or”

“My very first letter as a Member of Parliament was to Thames Water, following the unacceptable fact that thousands of hours of sewage had been released into the River Ver, one of our precious chalk streams. Whatever the future structure of Thames Water, what guarantees can the Minister put in place that the environment…”