Lindsay Hoyle will address the chamber about the topic at 2.30pm.
The House of Commons speaker is to make a statement regarding a Scottish man who has been arrested on suspicion of spying for China.
In a statement released by his lawyers Birnberg Peirce the man – who they did not name – said: “I feel forced to respond to the media accusations that I am a ‘Chinese spy’. It is wrong that I should be obliged to make any form of public comment on the misreporting that has taken place. The Metropolitan Police’s Counter Terrorism Command, which oversees espionage-related offences, said in a statement: “A man in his 30s was arrested at an address in Oxfordshire and a man in his 20s was arrested at an address in Edinburgh.
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