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HANSARDCost 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 2022HANSARD UkraineRussian missile strikes in Kyiv have reportedly left much of the city without water. What more will the Government do, through both expertise and funding, to ensure that…31 Oct 2022HANSARDWestern Jet Foil and Manston Asylum Processing CentresIt has been widely reported that children are being detained at the Manston site. Can the Home Secretary confirm—her Minister could not confirm it last week—how many children are…31 Oct 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Fourth sitting)Q In your evidence to the Committee, you said that you wanted Ministers to amend the legislation to ensure that accountancy firms are in the scope for indirect information-sharing…27 Oct 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Third sitting)Q Are there additional measures in the Bill that you think would be useful to shut that door on new companies? Graham Barrow: I think there have been a couple of opportunities…27 Oct 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Third sitting)Q Presumably very little of that gets picked up by way of an offence. It is an offence to make a false filing to Companies House. Graham Barrow: No, and there are a whole range of…27 Oct 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Third sitting)Q Thank you, Graham, for coming to give evidence and for all the work you have been doing on the Companies House register. You have exposed quite a lot of companies that are…27 Oct 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Third sitting)Q Is there an amendment you would make to make that clearer? Elspeth Berry: In terms of the historic record? I would think 20 years; I understand that has been done for a lot of…27 Oct 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Third sitting)Q Do you think it would be necessary for Companies House to set about the work of going backwards through the register? There are companies being registered every single day. The…27 Oct 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Third sitting)Q First, I want to follow up on that point about unique identifiers and how those would help. I have looked myself up in the Companies House register, and I appear as three…27 Oct 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Third sitting)Q Helena, in terms of tightening up Companies House registration, is there more that needs to go into the Bill to prevent abuse of the system? Helena Wood: There are some…27 Oct 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Third sitting)Q I want to ask Duncan about Scottish limited partnerships and limited partnerships more generally. The Bill does not really crack down on the opaqueness of ownership. Could you…27 Oct 2022HANSARD Cross-Channel Migrants: Manston FacilityAs chair of the all-party group on immigration detention, I have heard many stories over the years of inadequate facilities for people who have come from very desperate…27 Oct 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Fourth sitting)Q The Government have talked up the benefits of being able to incorporate companies fast. Do you think there needs to be a bit more grit in the system to allow for scrutiny,…27 Oct 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Fourth sitting)Q That makes sense. Certainly, there have been lots of times when I have been in rooms with a group of people who have solutions to tackle this, and Government should be doing…27 Oct 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Fourth sitting)Q There has been a lot of discussion about anti-money laundering supervision, and the effectiveness of the agencies that the Government expect to carry out those duties. Are they…27 Oct 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Fourth sitting)I think my colleagues and I are interested in hearing this.27 Oct 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Thank you; that is very helpful. I just wanted to ask about something else. Bill Browder had suggested a sort of “adverse costs” amendment, to prevent law enforcement companies…27 Oct 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Thank you very much, Catherine. Could you tell us a bit more about why the UK has become the destination of choice for people wishing to use corporate structures for money…27 Oct 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Fourth sitting)Q We have heard an awful lot about deficiencies in the register in terms of the information that is on there and the practical difficulties that that causes for companies who wish…27 Oct 2022