Mentions:
1: Liam Byrne (Lab - Birmingham, Hodge Hill) As the House knows, once upon a time, Hong Kong was considered meaningfully different from mainland China - Speech Link
2: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) amount of trouble we had getting the Government to do anything about Huawei, in relation to 5G, and Hikvision - Speech Link
Oct. 31 2023
Source Page: Letter from Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner to HikvisionFound: Letter from Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner to Hikvision
Mentions:
1: Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (Lab - Life peer) The Prime Minister has talked quite tough in recent weeks on the Government’s approach to China. - Speech Link
2: Lord Fox (LD - Life peer) It is somewhat intriguing because I suspect that the reason this has come up is because Hikvision is - Speech Link
3: Lord Fox (LD - Life peer) actually that the language that the Government have used about non-sensitive sites is being used by Hikvision - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB - Life peer) of saying that one of his first actions in Whitehall had been to have surveillance cameras linked to Hikvision - Speech Link
2: None I hope that civil servants and Ministers will learn the lessons from allowing Hikvision and Dahua cameras - Speech Link
3: Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (LAB - Life peer) It is state sanctioned and widespread throughout China. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Smith of Basildon (LAB - Life peer) Can the Lord Privy Seal say anything more today about the specific threat posed by China? - Speech Link
2: Lord Newby (LDEM - Life peer) report.More generally, the Government’s record on standing up to China is weak. - Speech Link
3: Lord True (CON - Life peer) The noble Baroness also said that we must have a serious response to China. - Speech Link
4: Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB - Life peer) harvesting and the surveillance state that comes through the installation of cameras by companies such as Hikvision - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) sensitive Government sites and cameras, but Members on both sides of the House had to ask questions on Hikvision - Speech Link
2: Oliver Dowden (CON - Hertsmere) That is precisely the approach we took in relation to Hikvision and other China-based companies subject - Speech Link
3: Oliver Dowden (CON - Hertsmere) Gentleman is right to highlight that we have a changed approach to China, because the facts on China - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) The position that we adopt with China is very simple. - Speech Link
2: Felicity Buchan (CON - Kensington) For example, we are also campaigning against Hikvision cameras, which are made in China. - Speech Link
Found: collections/overseas -business -risk 9 https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/overseas -business -risk-china
Report Aug. 30 2023
Committee: Foreign Affairs Committee (Department: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)Found: Hikvision surveillance cameras) which are capable of being used for remote data harvesting.
Asked by: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Labour - Slough)
Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether their Department has purchased products manufactured by (a) Hikvision and (b) Dahua in the last three years.
Answered by George Freeman
As has been the case under successive administrations, it is not Government policy to comment on the government’s security arrangements. This includes any specific details regarding the make and model of security systems, which are withheld on national security grounds.
Each Department is responsible for their own procurement decisions. However, I would refer the Hon. member to the Written Ministerial Statement made by the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster on 24 November 2022, which set out that Departments had been instructed to disconnect surveillance equipment from core departmental networks where it is subject to the National Intelligence Law of China.