Alleged Spying Case: Home Office Involvement

Debate between Dan Jarvis and John Cooper

Monday 20th October 2025 Commons Chamber

[Dan Jarvis]

We are here because of activities that happened under the previous Government. That is why we are here—I repeat the point I made earlier about Conservative Members showing a bit of humility—and I gave a response to the shadow Home Secretary.

[John Cooper (Dumfries and Galloway) (Con)]

A senior Chinese Government official invited Britain to

“fulfil its obligations and honour its commitments”

over the so-called super-embassy, but can the Minister shed light on what those obligations and commitments were? If he is going to say that no such commitments or obligations were offered, can we file that under another threat to this country by the Chinese?

[Dan Jarvis]

We do not recognise those claims. Of course, given the quasi-judicial nature of the process, it would have been entirely improper for anybody to have made any comment that basically cut across the legal process that is being led by the Secretary of State for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.