Ministerial statement on Monday, 27 April 2026, in the House of Commons, led by Darren Jones.

Lord Mandelson Humble Address: Government Response Update

Statement to update the House of the Government's response to the Humble Address of 4 February 2026.

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Type: Parliamentary proceeding
Reference: 784 cc587-599
Session: 2024-26
Department: Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Chamber / Committee: House of Commons chamber
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Proceeding contributions: Darren Jones | 784 cc587-8 (Link to this contribution)
Given the upcoming Prorogation and state opening of Parliament, I thought it would be helpful to ...; Lindsay Hoyle | 784 c588 (Link to this contribution)
I call the shadow Minister.
4.24 pm; Alex Burghart | 784 cc588-9 (Link to this contribution)
I thank the Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister for advance sight of his statement and for taki...; Darren Jones | 784 cc589-590 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Gentleman asked me a number of questions, which I will take in turn. To the question of ...; Clive Efford | 784 c590 (Link to this contribution)
The whole House came together around the Humble Address on the basis that Parliament had found it...; Darren Jones | 784 c590 (Link to this contribution)
As has been alluded to at the Dispatch Box, there were documents that the Humble Address warrante...; Nusrat Ghani | 784 c590 (Link to this contribution)
I call the Liberal Democrat spokesperson.; Lisa Smart | 784 cc590-1 (Link to this contribution)
I thank the Chief Secretary for advance sight of his statement. The women and girls who spoke out...; Darren Jones | 784 c591 (Link to this contribution)
It is not for the Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister to speak about whipping arrangements at t...; Stella Creasy | 784 c591 (Link to this contribution)
The pain of the Epstein victims sits heavy with all of us in this House because we expect the hig...; Darren Jones | 784 c591 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend is exactly right to raise that question. The terms of reference have been confirme...; Jeremy Wright | 784 cc591-2 (Link to this contribution)
I thank the Minister for his kind words about the hard work of the Intelligence and Security Comm...; Darren Jones | 784 c592 (Link to this contribution)
I thank the right hon. and learned Gentleman for his question and confirm that the Government sha...; Jeremy Wright | 784 c592 (Link to this contribution)
Forgive me, Madam Deputy Speaker. It was about whether the Minister would confirm that it will be...; Darren Jones | 784 c592 (Link to this contribution)
I can confirm that the Government’s agreed process with the Committee stands.; Rachael Maskell | 784 c592 (Link to this contribution)
I thank the Chief Secretary for his statement. I am interested in the costs. We know about the £7...; Darren Jones | 784 c592 (Link to this contribution)
My best answer is to refer my hon. Friend to the contracts finder tool, which publishes all publi...; Simon Hoare | 784 c593 (Link to this contribution)
May I, through the right hon. Gentleman, thank the officials in the Cabinet Office who have assis...; Darren Jones | 784 c593 (Link to this contribution)
The tranche of documents will be published in the normal way to ensure that parliamentary privile...; Richard Burgon | 784 c593 (Link to this contribution)
Further to the security vetting issue in relation to Peter Mandelson, last week in the Chamber I ...; Darren Jones | 784 c593 (Link to this contribution)
The House will appreciate that I cannot comment on individual applications of policy in relation ...; Stephen Flynn | 784 c593 (Link to this contribution)
In respect of the Humble Address, perhaps contrary to what was suggested earlier, the House agree...; Darren Jones | 784 c594 (Link to this contribution)
I always enjoy the right hon. Gentleman’s interventions, but that did not pertain to the statemen...; Chris Vince | 784 c594 (Link to this contribution)
Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. [Interruption.]. Are we all finished? I thank the Chief Secretar...; Darren Jones | 784 c594 (Link to this contribution)
I thank my hon. Friend for his question. As has been said at the Dispatch Box before, it was prev...; Desmond Swayne | 784 c594 (Link to this contribution)
A referral to the Privileges Committee has always been considered a House matter—a matter for the...; Darren Jones | 784 c594 (Link to this contribution)
I refer the right hon. Gentleman to my previous answer.; Sarah Russell | 784 c594 (Link to this contribution)
Could my right hon. Friend the Minister please confirm whether any documents that were previously...; Darren Jones | 784 c594 (Link to this contribution)
I am afraid I do not know the answer to that question, but I commit myself to taking it away.
...; Joy Morrissey | 784 c594 (Link to this contribution)
I am just a humble Member of this House, and it is our job to hold the Government to account. It ...; Darren Jones | 784 c594 (Link to this contribution)
I refer to my previous answer about standing by the commitment made between the Government and th...; Perran Moon | 784 c594 (Link to this contribution)
The worst outcome from this process is that a police investigation is compromised by materials ma...; Darren Jones | 784 c595 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend asks an important question. As has been said before, at the heart of this entire s...; Richard Foord | 784 c595 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to the Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister for his statement. He said that,; Darren Jones | 784 c595 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Gentleman sets out the process that has been agreed between the Committee and the Govern...; Sean Woodcock | 784 c595 (Link to this contribution)
This has been a very damaging issue. Peter Mandelson should clearly never have been made ambassad...; Darren Jones | 784 c595 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend is right. There is a whole series of processes that this Government inherited as t...; Esther McVey | 784 c595 (Link to this contribution)
Is there any truth in the claims that the delay in the Government adhering to the Humble Address ...; Darren Jones | 784 c595 (Link to this contribution)
Cabinet Ministers have received instructions from the Cabinet Office about the declaration of the...; Richard Tice | 784 c596 (Link to this contribution)
With regard to the release of these Mandelson documents, there is genuine concern about what may ...; Darren Jones | 784 c596 (Link to this contribution)
Redactions are done in line with the policy I set out previously.; Kieran Mullan | 784 c596 (Link to this contribution)
I politely say that the Minister’s overly sincere, butter-wouldn’t-melt-in-his-mouth act is begin...; Nusrat Ghani | 784 c596 (Link to this contribution)
Order. Let us keep our questions short and omit the word “you” because I am not responding.; Darren Jones | 784 c596 (Link to this contribution)
I am sorry that the hon. Member is not happy with my performance—I will try harder in future. In ...; Alison Bennett | 784 c596 (Link to this contribution)
What is the Department’s internal deadline for concluding the release of the Mandelson files? If ...; Darren Jones | 784 c596 (Link to this contribution)
The Department has now handed over all the final documents that it needs to hand over to the Inte...; Alec Shelbrooke | 784 c596 (Link to this contribution)
The truth of the matter is when the Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister says that process was f...; Darren Jones | 784 c597 (Link to this contribution)
I answered that question in my opening statement. All final documents relevant to the ISC process...; Liz Saville Roberts | 784 c597 (Link to this contribution)
Today’s statement is interesting, but we need to remember how we got here in the first place: the...; Darren Jones | 784 c597 (Link to this contribution)
I am not quite clear what the question was in relation to the Humble Address. In relation to the ...; Paul Holmes | 784 c597 (Link to this contribution)
Last week, I asked the Prime Minister if he would publish his decision note on the box note given...; Darren Jones | 784 c597 (Link to this contribution)
I am happy to reconfirm that all redactions are in black in the documents that are being publishe...; Lee Dillon | 784 c597 (Link to this contribution)
How does the Prime Minister’s promise of delivering honesty, integrity and accountability reconci...; Darren Jones | 784 c597 (Link to this contribution)
I am not sure that I should declare my voting intention from the Dispatch Box, but I refer the ho...; Julian Lewis | 784 cc597-8 (Link to this contribution)
The Government are keen to emphasise their transparency in the course of dealing with the Humble ...; Nusrat Ghani | 784 c598 (Link to this contribution)
The Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister’s responsibilities are just growing and growing!; Darren Jones | 784 c598 (Link to this contribution)
I am deeply grateful, Madam Deputy Speaker. I always ensure that I honour parliamentary questions...; Jim Shannon | 784 c598 (Link to this contribution)
I thank the Minister for his statement— he is a decent and honourable man. In phone calls to my o...; Darren Jones | 784 c598 (Link to this contribution)
The Humble Address is an example of Parliament holding the Government to account, and of the Gove...; Karen Bradley | 784 c598 (Link to this contribution)
Could the Chief Secretary confirm that responses to submissions are written on the paper of the s...; Darren Jones | 784 c598 (Link to this contribution)
I assume that to be the case.; Lincoln Jopp | 784 c598 (Link to this contribution)
I thank the Minister for his statement, in which he said that
“the Government will not publ...; Darren Jones | 784 c598 (Link to this contribution)
In the first instance, officials make those judgments and refer those requests to the Intelligenc...; Jerome Mayhew | 784 c598 (Link to this contribution)
One of the glaring omissions in the first release of documentation was the Prime Minister’s respo...; Darren Jones | 784 c598 (Link to this contribution)
All the documents that the Government hold in relation to the initial appointment and subsequent ...; Louie French | 784 c599 (Link to this contribution)
When he was asked on 20 April why there is no record of his and Peter Mandelson’s meeting with Pa...; Darren Jones | 784 c599 (Link to this contribution)
As the Prime Minister said, that was part of a series of visits that he was undertaking. It is of...; Harriet Cross | 784 c599 (Link to this contribution)
The shadow Chancellor for the Duchy of Lancaster has asked today and previously, as have other Co...; Darren Jones | 784 c599 (Link to this contribution)
All relevant documents will be published in the normal way.; David Reed | 784 c599 (Link to this contribution)
The Minister says that 300 documents have now been shared with the ISC, but how many are left to ...; Darren Jones | 784 c599 (Link to this contribution)
The Cabinet Office has now processed all the documents ready for the second tranche. In relation ...
Subjects: Disclosure of information Diplomatic service Conflict of interests Intelligence and Security Committee National security Public appointments Mandelson, Lord Committee of Privileges Vetting Addresses to the Crown Free votes Epstein, Jeffrey
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Lord Mandelson Humble Address: Government Response Update

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