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Written Question
Intelligence and Security Committee
Monday 20th July 2020

Asked by: Lord Butler of Brockwell (Crossbench - Life peer)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord True on 29 June (HL5988), what are the current circumstances delaying the reappointment of the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament.

Answered by Lord True - Shadow Leader of the House of Lords

The Intelligence and Security Committee was reconstituted on 14 July 2020.

Written Question
Intelligence and Security Committee
Monday 29th June 2020

Asked by: Lord Butler of Brockwell (Crossbench - Life peer)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the terrorist attack in Reading on 20 June, when the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament will be appointed. [T]

Answered by Lord True - Shadow Leader of the House of Lords

I refer the noble Lord to my answer given to PQ HL3315 on 4 May 2020. The Committee is being formed in the normal way and as quickly as current circumstances allow. An announcement will be made in due course.

Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 12 Mar 2020
Ministerial Code

"My Lords, when I saw that the noble Lord, Lord Tyler, had secured this debate—on which I congratulate him—I thought it would be incomplete without the participation of a former Cabinet Secretary. After all, we have been the guardians of this document down the years. Its origins were contemporaneous with …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 02 Mar 2020
Ministerial Code: Breaches

"My Lords, will the noble Lord clear up one point that was a little ambiguous in his answer to the Leader of the Opposition? I welcome the fact that, in line with the Ministerial Code, the Prime Minister has asked the Cabinet Office to establish the facts—that is clearly very …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 16 Jul 2019
Brexit: European Investment Bank (European Union Committee Report)

"My Lords, I start by saying how very much I have enjoyed serving on the EU finance sub-committee. I have now been rotated from it on to the Select Committee on the social effects of gambling. I hope one is not regarded as a qualification for the other. As has …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Fri 23 Mar 2018
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) (Abolition of By-Elections) Bill [HL]

"My Lords, this is the only opportunity I have to say that it is not often I would do anything which the noble and learned Lord, Lord Mackay, did not approve of. But I voted against the Motion and I want to make the point that it was the only …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Fri 23 Mar 2018
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) (Abolition of By-Elections) Bill [HL]

"Before the noble Lord sits down, can I just say in reply that, if he reads the newspapers tomorrow or listens to “Yesterday in Parliament”, he will hear that the way in which the House demonstrated that it wanted to support the Grocott Bill was through that Bill...."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 06 Apr 2017
Brexit and the EU Budget (EUC Report)

"My Lords, the members of the sub-committee which produced this report have perhaps been blowing their own trumpets. However, in this case we are justified in doing so because, under the skilful chairmanship of the noble Baroness, Lady Falkner, this report is a good example of the service which your …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 06 Apr 2017
Brexit and the EU Budget (EUC Report)

"I accept that but the point is, as the noble Lord has said, that the budgets for the periods after we leave have not yet been set so we are not committed to them. The annual budget for 2019 and 2020 has not been set, so I regard any claim …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 06 Apr 2017
Brexit and the EU Budget (EUC Report)

"With respect, I do not take that view. These are employees of the EU and its institutions. If they are fired for whatever reason, their redundancy payment and severance terms will be determined by their contract and negotiation with the EU and the EU institutions. That does not seem to …..."
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