Western Jet Foil and Manston Asylum Processing Centres

Debate between Suella Braverman and Ben Bradshaw

Monday 31st October 2022 Commons Chamber

[Suella Braverman]

Part of our plan for tackling this issue is about increasing our resources and manpower in order to detect and intercept the organised criminal gangs upstream. That is what part of the work with the French entails, and that is why I have been very encouraged by the discussions I have had with my French counterpart, Minister Darmanin, on how we can work better and more closely together, with our intelligence agencies and law enforcement agencies, jointly upstream to try to intercept early on.

[Mr Ben Bradshaw (Exeter) (Lab)]

Is it still explained to incoming Ministers, as it was to me more than 21 years ago, how easily one’s mobile phone can be compromised by organised criminals and hostile foreign powers? If so, how was her mobile phone and that of the former Prime Minister, the right hon. Member for South West Norfolk (Elizabeth Truss), compromised in security breaches?

[Suella Braverman]

I set out those details in the letter today and I have made it clear that there were no issues about national security being compromised.