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HANSARD Online Safety BillFirst, congratulations to the Under-Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, the hon. Member for Folkestone and Hythe (Damian Collins). I think his is one of the…12 Jul 2022HANSARD Online Safety BillAbsolutely. I very much welcome the hon. and learned Lady’s amendment, which clarifies the parameters under which freedom of speech can be protected and promoted. Equally, freedom…12 Jul 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime: Law EnforcementIt is a bizarre day to be debating a really important issue. I am grateful to the Backbench Business Committee for selecting it, and it is a privilege to follow the hon. Member…07 Jul 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime: Law EnforcementI completely agree with those observations, which are so well made. The National Crime Agency has dropped its prosecutions by 35% in the past five years. The record of Her…07 Jul 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime: Law EnforcementI note the Minister’s theoretical description of what happens, but the practice, for anybody who puts any allegation that we get from whistleblowers into the system, is that it…07 Jul 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime: Law EnforcementI will keep it tight. It is shocking but true that it was the tragedy of the war in Ukraine that got our Government to start thinking about the serious threat that the country…07 Jul 2022HANSARDPreventing Crime and Delivering JusticeI am very grateful to the Home Secretary for giving way. I want to engage not in the to and fro on which she started her contribution, but on a subject where I think there is…11 May 2022HANSARDPreventing Crime and Delivering JusticeMy right hon. Friend is making a very powerful speech. I want to move on beyond the police to the issues she has raised about fraud. Fraud is now the biggest crime facing us, and…11 May 2022HANSARD Online Safety BillThank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I hope that I will take only three minutes. The human cost of abuse on the internet is unquantifiable—from self-harm to suicide, grooming to child…19 Apr 2022HANSARD Easter Recess: Government UpdateI see that the Prime Minister is anxious to move on to other issues, but the question is: can he do that? Let me take one example. Can he explain to me, the House and the country…19 Apr 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) BillI think we are all wandering around the same point. May I clarify it? The Minister agreed to look at our amendment 3, which addresses the question of whether this is an entity or…07 Mar 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) BillI rise to speak specifically to new clause 2, on the funding of enforcement agencies, but I wish to say a couple of things about the amendments in general. First, I am grateful to…07 Mar 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) BillIt always seems to me absurd that it costs £12 to establish a new company in Companies House. Obviously we want to make it easy for new businesses to enter the market, but £12 is…07 Mar 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) BillThere are already arrangements for the sharing of information and data, but it is not enough. It is absurd. When I talk to the enforcement agencies and the anti-money laundering…07 Mar 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) BillCryptocurrency has become the new way in which money is laundered. Corrupt and stolen money ends up in the pockets of one individual, and then gets back into the system for them…07 Mar 2022HANSARD Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) BillI welcome the indications that the Home Secretary has given of what will be in the Bill that will arrive, I hope, early in the next Session, but will she also consider the role of…07 Mar 2022HANSARD Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) BillI will try to keep my remarks short. Like others in the House, I welcome the Bill, but it should never have taken the nightmare of a war in Ukraine for us to act and to halt the…07 Mar 2022HANSARD Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) BillNo, of course not; I completely concur. The latest figure I have seen for the cost of economic crime to the economy is £260 billion, so the Government must provide tougher…07 Mar 2022HANSARD Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) BillI am interested in where the Minister has got his information from, because I have not seen that data. I understand about the Hollywood stars and those people who do not want…07 Mar 2022HANSARD SanctionsHear, hear. We all agree. I will send the complete list to the Minister. I ask him and his colleagues in the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and elsewhere to…01 Mar 2022