​Dr Julian Lewis: Do the Government accept something that I had difficulty getting their predecessor to accept – that Huawei should not be regarded as a private company because it is intimately linked with the Chinese communist state and ​its deeply hostile intelligence agencies? If they do accept that, as they should, are they confident that the safeguards that will be put in place will be sufficient to guard us against a deeply hostile intelligence agency, such as he implied in his statement we needed to do in relation to Russia ?

[The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and First Secretary of State (Dominic Raab): As I set out in my statement, we have been very clear that the relationship between any private business and a Government or state operator has been at the centre of the analysis that we and that the National Cyber Security Centre have conducted. Based on the distinction between the centre or core and the periphery or edge, the different restrictions that can be made on access, and the 35% cap on accessing the periphery, I am confident that we can provide my right hon. Friend with precisely the reassurance that he asks for.]