Joint committee on national security strategy to hold inquiry into collapse of China spy trial, MPs told – UK politics live

Chairs of home affairs, foreign affairs and justice committees to be among those involved in inquiry

Jeremy Wright, a Tory former attorney general, asked why the witness statments mentioned China presenting an economic opportunity.

What is the possible relevance of the inclusion of information about China as an economic opportunity? Surely the minister can see, and the government can see, that that only weakens the substance of the question that particular witness was being asked to answer.

Ward said that the witness statement was providing the “broader context of the position of the government at the time in relation to the situation on China”.

Edward Leigh (Con) asked for an assurance that there was no ministerial involvement in the CPS decision to drop the case.