Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 24 May 2021
BBC: Dyson Report
"Does my right hon. Friend agree that part of the problem in the culture of the BBC is that people often confuse the need to be accountable with a threat to the independence of their editorial judgment and that they therefore avoid that accountability? Does the board now accept that …..."Bernard Jenkin - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 27 Jan 2020
5G Network and Huawei
"Is not the long-term strategic question: why have we come to a point where we have no recourse to sufficiently viable and cheap technology of our own, or from any of our allies? Should we not have been developing that for the last 20 years? [Interruption.] A lot …..."Bernard Jenkin - View Speech
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Written Question
Monday 10th September 2018
Asked by:
Bernard Jenkin (Conservative - Harwich and North Essex)
Question
to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what preparations he has made to support the resilience of UK companies' ability to send data across international borders in the event of no agreement being reached under Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Margot James
As the Prime Minister said in her Mansion House speech, achieving a deal on data protection is one of the foundations that must underpin the UK-EU trading relationship. The recently published White Paper (available on gov.uk) sets out the UK’s ambition for a future EU-UK relationship on data protection, which builds on standard adequacy arrangements to provide for ongoing regulatory cooperation and joined up enforcement action between UK and EU data protection authorities. The government is ready to begin preliminary discussions on an adequacy assessment straight away to provide the earliest possible reassurance that data flows can continue.
However, a responsible government should prepare for all potential outcomes, including the unlikely scenario in which no mutually satisfactory agreement can be reached on data protection. That is exactly what we are doing across the whole of government, including on data transfer. Without an adequacy decision or new model in place, it is still possible for personal data to be transferred to third countries in some circumstances. The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation and Law Enforcement Directive sets out alternative methods of transfer, which companies and public authorities may use to transfer data to third countries in the absence of an adequacy decision. Further guidance on this issue is available from the ICO website.
As such, we will continue to engage with organisations that transfer personal data across borders to help them understand how they would need to operate under a range of outcomes on data protection.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 21 Dec 2017
Russian Interference in UK Politics
"I congratulate the right hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington (Tom Brake) on securing this debate.
There are some very serious issues to discuss and to bring into the public domain, but I think we need to keep a sense of proportion. I agree with the hon. Member for Ilford …..."Bernard Jenkin - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 21 Dec 2017
Russian Interference in UK Politics
"I am very reluctant to take up extra time, but I will briefly give way...."Bernard Jenkin - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 21 Dec 2017
Russian Interference in UK Politics
"I completely agree with the right hon. Gentleman, but the fact is that today’s Russia is a shadow of the power that was the former Soviet Union...."Bernard Jenkin - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 21 Dec 2017
Russian Interference in UK Politics
"I absolutely concur with what my hon. Friend says—I do not want to diminish it at all—but we need to keep cyber-warfare, particularly political interference, in perspective.
The Committee I chair, the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee, produced a report on “Lessons learned from the EU Referendum” in March. …..."Bernard Jenkin - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 21 Dec 2017
Russian Interference in UK Politics
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 21 Dec 2017
Russian Interference in UK Politics
"I, too, question the criteria for success, because there is evidence of success in that it is provoking consternation at and the questioning of democratic results and policies in our country. Those are the criteria for success. We want to hear that GCHQ will aggressively target the generation of such …..."Bernard Jenkin - View Speech
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