I mentioned to the clerk a study that had been undertaken by a Geneva think tank that has done a lot of work on parliamentary oversight and review, and it examined this issue, in fact, and does make a distinction between different kinds of processes undertaken by different parliaments.
There are certainly some European parliaments that provide security clearances to members of Parliament, principally on the basis of their role with respect to selected committees. This is true, as I recall, for parliaments as diverse as those of Poland, Slovakia and so on, but certainly there are European countries that have adopted that process.
It also is important to say that none of those countries have the kind of dedicated, specialized committee of the sort that NSICOP represents.
That's certainly an alternative method, in my view, but it's not nearly as powerful a one as the one that we've created and can potentially reform and make stronger still in the future.
Thank you.