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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 10 Mar 2020
Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) Bill

"May I draw the hon. Member back to the question of what we mean by a high-risk vendor? Quite rightly, she is focused on the security element, but in a throwaway line she talked about the attitude to trade with China. The whole concept of global trade requires a rules-based …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 10 Mar 2020
Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) Bill

"It is not just subsidy that supports Huawei and undermines its competition. At least some members of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service believe that Huawei started by stealing Nortel’s technology, which ended up destroying Nortel and putting Huawei in a dominant position...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 10 Mar 2020
Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) Bill

"As my right hon. Friend intimates, there is a massive subsidy from the Chinese state to Huawei, and that is for a purpose. Would he care to expatiate on what that purpose might be?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 10 Mar 2020
Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) Bill

"I have three very simple points to make. First, we are told that we should listen to the experts, namely the Government experts, but what is their argument? Their argument is this: the experts at our national security agencies, the greatest experts on this matter in the world, are wrong; …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 10 Mar 2020
Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) Bill

"My hon. Friend makes a very good point, but I suspect that seven years is a massive overestimate. Like our telephones, this technology changes every 18 months. Seven years is the achievement of an Einstein of this sector. That is point No. 1: our expert argument in the UK is …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 10 Mar 2020
Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) Bill

"Will the Minister give way on that exact point?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 10 Mar 2020
Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) Bill

"Point No. 1: there is unavailable capacity—well, Ericsson says that that is not true. It said that at Davos earlier this year and Samsung says that it is not true, but if we want proof of that, the Australians, who denied Huawei, already have 5G operations in Sydney and Melbourne …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 04 Mar 2020
Huawei and 5G

"I have been listening carefully to my right hon. Friend’s brilliant speech. As far as I can see, so far he has knocked down the Government’s arguments on technical grounds, diplomatic grounds, security grounds, practical grounds, commercial grounds and public safety grounds. After listening to his speech, there are no …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 04 Mar 2020
Huawei and 5G

"I say to the Minister that a mixture of good and bad is not diversity. That is the first thing. He says that he puts the security of the nation first. In pursuit of that, the Government have claimed that there is no back door to Huawei hardware. The Americans …..."
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Written Question
5G
Tuesday 3rd March 2020

Asked by: David Davis (Conservative - Goole and Pocklington)

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the announcement by his Department on 20 February 2020 of a £65 million package for 5G trials, what the Government's policy is on security in the telecommunications supply chain in respect of those trials; and what decisions have been made in respect of the identity of the suppliers that will provide the infrastructure for those trials.

Answered by Matt Warman

The recent announcement of a new £65 million package of 5G trials forms part of the DCMS £200 million 5G Testbeds and Trials programme. That included £35 million for nine winning projects from our rural and industrial 5G competitions, and a new £30 million open competition - 5G Create - that will launch in due course.

The Programme ensures that each of our projects has a security strategy in place that identifies and mitigates security risks and is proportionate for R&D environments. Testbeds are encouraged to employ nationally recognised standards and best practice security approaches. This includes identifying and mitigating supply chain risks and taking steps to manage High Risk Vendors. None of the successful projects announced as part of Industrial 5G and Rural Connected Communities will use equipment from high risk vendors. We will publish guidance in due course for our 5G Create competition when it launches.