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HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Second sitting)Q I agree. May I just ask you about the authorised corporate service providers who are going to do a lot of this work for you? We have concerns, because although they are…25 Oct 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Second sitting)Q With you or with HMRC? Martin Swain: With us. This is separate to their AML supervision. In order to file with us, they will need to register. We will verify the identities of…25 Oct 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Second sitting)But it does nothing. Martin Swain: I am not going to answer from HMRC’s perspective. If we are talking about smarter regulation, the benefit is that we will have a power and an…25 Oct 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Second sitting)That is very helpful, thank you. I have a quick question for Adrian. Adrian Searle: Can I come in on that earlier question? The requirement that the company service provider has a…25 Oct 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Second sitting)Q They have to go after them, but that is for another day. Adrian, with your wider remit, there has been a huge decrease in the number of cases that have been taken by the SFO and…25 Oct 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Second sitting)Q I think there is a difference between civil and criminal. The UWO is a civil offence, so it is easier. Some lawyers will say that if you end up convicted of a crime, you ought…25 Oct 2022HANSARDLawfare and Investigative JournalismWe all agree that legislation is necessary, but the problem is that if the Minister does not take advantage of the legislation that is before us, the Economic Crime and Corporate…17 Oct 2022HANSARDLawfare and Investigative JournalismYes, I will be very brief. Since coming to Britain, Leus has tried to make us believe that his conviction was overturned, but this is untrue: it was struck off his records so that…17 Oct 2022HANSARDLawfare and Investigative JournalismI am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for giving way and congratulate him on securing this debate and on making a fantastic speech. He has been a passionate and effective…17 Oct 2022HANSARDEconomic UpdateI think the country is feeling a sense of relief that trickle-down economics this time has been so quickly abandoned, but there was one element in the mini-Budget that the new…17 Oct 2022HANSARDReplacement of the Chancellor of the ExchequerI was not going to rise to ask a question, but I have been concerned at some of the answers that the Leader of the House has given. If we are to stabilise the markets and restore…17 Oct 2022HANSARD Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency BillIf the Home Secretary does agree with what was said by the hon. Member for Thirsk and Malton (Kevin Hollinrake), with whom I have worked closely on these matters, why is she not…13 Oct 2022HANSARD Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency BillHear, hear! I completely concur with the hon. Gentleman, and it is a real pleasure to work with him on all these matters. He is completely right. The interesting thing about…13 Oct 2022HANSARD Persecution of the Rohingya: International ResponseWe can endlessly debate here the terrible iniquities that the Rohingya people have been experiencing for a number of years, and my hon. Friend and I worked together when we were…13 Oct 2022HANSARD Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency BillIt is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Cheadle (Mary Robinson), who has been a passionate and strong advocate on behalf of whistleblowers and the very important part they…13 Oct 2022HANSARDThe Growth PlanWe expect our Government to implement policy based on evidence. As a student of history, the Chancellor will be familiar with Anthony Barber’s disastrous economic experiment in…23 Sept 2022HANSARDTributes to Her Late Majesty The QueenWhat has been so remarkable about the words that have been spoken about Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth since her death is just how many people’s lives she touched. It was not simply…09 Sept 2022HANSARDConfidence in Her Majesty’s GovernmentThe right hon. Member for Gainsborough (Sir Edward Leigh) is right that these confidence motions can descend into pointless political attacks, but the reality is that this…18 Jul 2022HANSARD Online Safety BillI welcome the Minister to his position, and it is wonderful to have somebody else who—like the previous Minister, the hon. Member for Croydon South (Chris Philp)—knows what he is…12 Jul 2022HANSARD Online Safety BillI understand that in relation to illegal harmful content, but I am talking about legal but harmful content. I understand that the Joint Committee that the hon. Member chaired…12 Jul 2022