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HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Ninth sitting)I have a brief point on a technical issue. It was flagged in evidence that some documents submitted electronically or posted on the Companies House website in electronic format…08 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Eighth sitting)I wholeheartedly support Labour’s new clause. There is an awful lot more that needs to be done to tighten up the measure on verification. Nick Van Benschoten, in his evidence,…03 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Eighth sitting)The Home Office report, “National risk assessment of money laundering and terrorist financing 2020,” states: “Company formation and related professional services are therefore a…03 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Eighth sitting)But they are separately listed.03 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Eighth sitting)indicated dissent .03 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Eighth sitting)I agree. I do not want to go too far on clause 66, as we have not reached it, but this is about ensuring that something is in the Bill, that it is hard and fast that it happens,…03 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Eighth sitting)I rise to speak to amendments 69, 68 and 70. These are connected amendments to schedule 2. I appreciate the point about clause 66, but we will get to that when we get to it, and…03 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Seventh sitting)My reading of the amendment is that it relates to a person changing any details relating to any company in the register in the three months prior. One of the red flags that Graham…03 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Seventh sitting)The hon. Gentleman is making a really important point about nominee directors. Is he aware of a “File on 4” programme —I believe it was aired last year—about nominee directors…03 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Eighth sitting)Broadly, I support clause 66. The amendments are not to that clause, but to schedule 2, to tighten it up and to improve it in any way we can. I accept what the Minister says.…03 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Eighth sitting)Will the Minister give way?03 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Eighth sitting)The Minister talks about not wanting to look at someone’s motivation for having, say, 400 company directorships. It is really is a case of, “There might be a reason, but we’re not…03 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Sixth sitting)What happens to all the companies that currently have a PO box, and how long do they have to comply with this measure?01 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Sixth sitting)I support the amendment tabled by the hon. Member for Aberavon, and that tabled by the right hon. Member for Barking, because a lot more needs to be done to regulate what is an…01 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Fifth sitting)I want to highlight again to the Minister the issues in these clauses that Graham Barrow raised in the excellent evidence that he gave to the Committee last week. He said: “The…01 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Fifth sitting)This is about new registrations. Will the registrar go back through the Companies House records to find people who may still be on the register but ought not to be, because they…01 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Fifth sitting)I rise to support this useful amendment. It is fundamentally about enhancing the transparency of the register and what we know about the people on the register. It is also about…01 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Fifth sitting)I would like to press the amendment to a vote because it does not set a figure or commit the Government to any particular sum of money, but guards against the under-resourcing…01 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Fifth sitting)I beg to move amendment 71, in clause 1, page 2, line 10, at end insert— “(4) The Secretary of State must ensure that the registrar has sufficient resources to fulfil the…01 Nov 2022HANSARDCost of Living: Social Security Payments23. What recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of benefits in meeting increases in the cost of living.31 Oct 2022