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Espionage: China

Commons · Question 85380 · Tabled 27 Oct 2025 · Home Office · Official record

Answered 12 Nov 2025

Question

Asked by Max Wilkinson

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to paragraph 23(b) of Witness Statement 1 by the Deputy National Security Adviser of 22 December 2023, what those back channels were.

Answer

Answered by Dan Jarvis, 12 Nov 2025

Upholding national security and keeping the public safe is the first duty of Government.This Government has been clear that we are extremely disappointed in the decision by the CPS not to proceed with prosecution of Christopher Cash and Christopher Berry....