Foreign Interference: Intelligence and Security

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 3:40 pm on 17 January 2022.

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Photo of Barry Gardiner Barry Gardiner Labour, Brent North 3:40, 17 January 2022

Through you, Mr Speaker, may I please thank Members from all across the House for the kind messages that I have received over the past few days? I welcome the Home Secretary’s statement and the work of the security services in protecting Parliament. Will the measures she has announced help MPs to get extra support when making the required checks about the true source of any donations? She will know that the security services told me that their alert was based on specific intelligence of illegal funding, which did not relate to the donations that paid for my office staff. Those ceased in 2020. Is she able to tell the House what steps she is taking to ascertain where the tainted money ended up?