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Jeremy Wright , the Conservative deputy chair of the intelligence and security committee who tabled the Mandelson UQ, said the committee had “considerable sympathy” with the arguments used by the government to justify the redactions that went beyond the redactions allowed by the humble address.

double quotation mark But we cannot accept that the government is entitled to ignore or to unilaterally alter the terms of the humble address. So does the Minister accept that if the government wants to argue that the humble address is too broad as drafted and needs to be refined, it must come to this house and make that argument and get the House’s consent for any alteration.

In response, Jones referred to his early comments justifying the redacting of information relating to personal data.

And referring to the government’s refusal to give the ISC informationn relating to Mandelson’s own security vetting, Jones said:

double quotation mark The raw data that is collected as part of those investigations, which, for example, might relate to how much money you have in a particular account or who you may have had a personal relationship with in the past, that raw data would never be published because if we did so, people would feel unable to answer those questions honestly and frankly in any UK security vetting investigation in the future, which would undermine the very basis of our national security system.