Official Secrets Act Case: Witness Statements Debate

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Official Secrets Act Case: Witness Statements

Tony Vaughan Excerpts
Thursday 16th October 2025

(1 day, 18 hours ago)

Commons Chamber
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Urgent Questions are proposed each morning by backbench MPs, and up to two may be selected each day by the Speaker. Chosen Urgent Questions are announced 30 minutes before Parliament sits each day.

Each Urgent Question requires a Government Minister to give a response on the debate topic.

This information is provided by Parallel Parliament and does not comprise part of the offical record

Chris Ward Portrait Chris Ward
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The wording in that statement was put in there to provide wider context of the situation, but as I have said many times, and I will keep saying it, that wording is provided independently by the DNSA without any involvement from Ministers or political advisers.

Lindsay Hoyle Portrait Mr Speaker
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Were you in at the beginning?

Lindsay Hoyle Portrait Mr Speaker
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Don’t bother wasting my time then.