Julian Lewis (10358)
This page contains possible times in debates that Julian Lewis may have disclosed an interest.
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2024-03-14: Match score 67%
I am listening with great interest to my hon Friend’s authoritative speech
2024-03-20: Match score 66%
I am sure they will now take a close interest in what happens next
2024-05-23: Match score 65%
May I just bring to the attention of the Leader of the House the fact that the Committee has resolved that it will no longer be under the aegis of the Cabinet Office? The basic conflict of interest, whereby the careers of the staff of a Committee that oversees bodies that are housed in a Department are in the hands of people in that very same Department, has become unsustainable
2024-07-17: Match score 65%
That is a fundamental conflict of interest
2023-12-14: Match score 63%
On that point, I recall that in 2021, while the National Security and Investment Bill was going through the House, the Government repeatedly said from the Dispatch Box that in any conflict between economic interest and national security their policy was that national security would come first. That was the whole point of bringing in the legislation. Now it appears that there is even a question mark on whether the structures set up in the legislation will examine this proposed questionable deal, let alone allow it to be effectively scrutinised by Parliament once they have done that examination.
2024-05-09: Match score 62%
It sounds absolutely admirable and I would be very interested in supporting her efforts
2024-09-12: Match score 61%
Right hon. and hon. Members may be surprised to learn that the ISC’s office—with a very small number of staff—belongs to the Cabinet Office, despite the ISC overseeing several sensitive organisations within the Cabinet Office. They would be right to be surprised, because that is indeed a fundamental conflict of interest. That is why, at the time of the Justice and Security Act, the Cabinet Office was supposed to be only the temporary home of the ISC’s office. Yet here we are, more than 10 years later, with the Committee’s staff still beholden to, vulnerable within, and unfairly pressured and even victimised by the very part of the Executive the Committee is charged with overseeing.