Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Hong Kong is now a puppet state of China. - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) China is watching, and so is Taiwan. - Speech Link
3: Tim Loughton (CON - East Worthing and Shoreham) doing as part of the China 2049 plan? - Speech Link
4: Catherine West (LAB - Hornsey and Wood Green) In recent years, China has unlawfully occupied islands and islets in the South China sea, which has caused - Speech Link
Asked by: Lord Campbell-Savours (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they have issued instructions to any government departments to cease or avoid the use of (1) Hikvision, or (2) Dahua, equipment; and if so, (a) which departments, and (b) with what justification.
Answered by Baroness Neville-Rolfe - Minister of State (Cabinet Office)
I refer the noble Lord to PQ HL4954 of 23 January 2023 but, for the benefit of the House, on 24 November 2022, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster laid a Written Ministerial Statement (WMS) instructing departments to cease deployment of surveillance equipment on sensitive sites on the government estate, where such equipment is produced by companies subject to the National Intelligence Law of the People’s Republic of China. Departments have been advised to consider whether there are sites to which they would wish to extend the same risk mitigation.
Written Evidence Mar. 01 2023
Committee: Foreign Affairs Committee (Department: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)Found: Review found that the UK needs to improve its ability to respond to the systemic challenge that China
Mentions:
1: McArthur, Liam (LD - Orkney Islands) reported remarks of the UK Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner, who likened the use of Hikvision - Speech Link
2: Cole-Hamilton, Alex (LD - Edinburgh Western) He also likened Hikvision in particular to “digital asbestos”.Not only are those cameras a threat to - Speech Link
3: Cole-Hamilton, Alex (LD - Edinburgh Western) However, I ask them to consider how they would view the situation if companies such as Hikvision and - Speech Link
4: Johnson, Daniel (Lab - Edinburgh Southern) As Alex Cole-Hamilton was speaking, I remembered that I had been advised to install a Hikvision camera - Speech Link
Oral Evidence Feb. 22 2023
Committee: Human Rights (Joint Committee)Found: I have asked, “Do you accept that these things are taking place in this part of China, and would
Found: reference the current issue of DNA collection in Tibet, the use of Chinese surveillance equipment (Hikvision
2 Gov.Ministers reply to my questions on CCP security risks in UK universities.From Confucius Institutes to Hikvision cameras & now a Foreign Office invitation to CCP Governor of Xinjiang, Gov policy on China is contradictory & incoherent @MPIainDS @JamesCleverly @TomTugendhat https://t.co/SvEKsYYW7X
Mentions:
1: Leo Docherty (CON - Aldershot) That point needs to be set out clearly to China. - Speech Link
2: Catherine West (LAB - Hornsey and Wood Green) Is the meeting essential to UK-China relations? I do not think it is. - Speech Link
3: Alicia Kearns (CON - Rutland and Melton) Cabinet Office Minister claimed this week that the complicity of Chinese state-run companies, such as Hikvision - Speech Link
4: Leo Docherty (CON - Aldershot) We have stood up to China when it comes to Xinjiang. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Florence Eshalomi (LAB - Vauxhall) only have been prisoners, our findings strongly suggest that physicians in the People’s Republic of China - Speech Link
2: None Dr Hoffman said that Hikvision cameras are operating ‘all over London’. - Speech Link
3: None We cannot hide how terrifyingly deep companies such as Hikvision run in the UK’s procurement systems. - Speech Link
4: None There is widespread use of their cameras for interrogation in China, and the US has subsequently placed - Speech Link
5: None Given that Hikvision is already banned in the US for links to internment camps in Xinjiang and banned - Speech Link
Asked by: Lord Bishop of St Albans (Bishops - Bishops)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government what recent assessment they have made of the Chinese surveillance companies (1) Dahua, and (2) Hikvision; what assessment they have made of any links between those companies and human rights abuses in the Xinjiang province; and what assessment they have made of whether they constitute a security threat to the UK.
Answered by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
The UK takes its national security extremely seriously. On 24 November 2022, the Government announced that Departments should cease deployment of visual surveillance systems produced by companies subject to China's National Intelligence Law onto sensitive sites. The Government has also consistently led international efforts to hold China to account for its human rights violations, including the use of invasive surveillance to target Uyghurs and other minorities. On 31 October, we supported a joint statement at the UN Third Committee alongside 49 other countries that specifically called out China's systematic use of invasive surveillance on the basis of religion and ethnicity. We also consistently raise the situation in Xinjiang with the Chinese authorities at the highest levels. Most recently, the Foreign Secretary did so in a meeting with his Chinese counterpart on 20 September.