Clause 2
Crown Employment (Nationality) Bill
10:30 am
Andrew Dismore (Hendon, Labour)
The short answer is that that would be wrong in respect of decisions about individuals. As I mentioned earlier, such jobs are set out in the European Communities (Employment in the Civil Service) Order 2007. They include jobs in certain departments of the security and intelligence services, including the Security Service, the Secret Intelligence Service, Government Communications Headquarters, the diplomatic service, the Foreign Office and the Defence Intelligence Staff. The order specifically refers to
“access to intelligence information received directly or indirectly...access to other information which, if...misused, might damage...security...border control or decisions about immigration”
and so on. The order gives a detailed list, and I understand that those sorts of rules will be brought into effect for the Bill.