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HANSARDHigh Speed 2When will High Speed 2 arrive in Manchester?18 Sept 2023HANSARDBusiness ExportsNew analysis from the House of Commons Library that I am publishing today shows that since 2010 our trade with dictatorships has grown by over £135 billion and that it is growing…14 Sept 2023HANSARD Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency BillOn a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. The inexplicable delay in counting votes has now risked denying the House a vote on ensuring that this Bill to tackle economic crime is as…13 Sept 2023HANSARDG20 SummitMay I first associate myself with the sympathies extended to the people of Morocco? I welcome the language in paragraph 50 of the G20 communiqué about building a bigger World…11 Sept 2023HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency BillI rise to endorse 100% the brilliant speech by my right hon. Friend the Member for Barking (Dame Margaret Hodge). Let me take this moment to pay tribute to her stalwart leadership…04 Sept 2023HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency BillThe Minister is being characteristically generous. I, too, respect what he is trying to do with the regulatory burden. I have taken a business from two people and a business plan…04 Sept 2023HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency BillThe Minister has wisely equipped himself with an order-making power, which he referred to earlier. He told the House that he plans to undertake a consultation. It would be of…04 Sept 2023HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency BillI am grateful to the Minister for his thanks for the progress we have made together on SLAPPs. Because of the amendment made on SLAPPs, we are now providing journalists and other…04 Sept 2023HANSARD Camp Hill Line Railway Stations, BirminghamI congratulate my hon. Friend on securing the debate. Is he aware that the delays to the transport plans do not simply affect the stations at the centre of this debate? In Mr…19 Jul 2023HANSARDIllicit Finance: War in UkraineI am grateful to the Minister, because I do not think the House had had a chance to cross-examine her on that point. Is she saying that sanctions will remain in place until Russia…13 Jul 2023HANSARD NATO SummitI hope that in his reply the Prime Minister will help clarify that it is we who owe gratitude to Ukraine, not the other way round. Will he update the House on plans not simply to…13 Jul 2023HANSARDIllicit Finance: War in UkraineMy gratitude goes to the Chair of the Liaison Committee, the hon. Member for Harwich and North Essex (Sir Bernard Jenkin), and the Chair of the Backbench Business Committee, my…13 Jul 2023HANSARDIllicit Finance: War in UkraineThe right hon. Gentleman is making an excellent speech. Is he as perplexed as I am about why NATO allies have not sought to bring forward, for example, a motion at the United…13 Jul 2023HANSARDIllicit Finance: War in UkraineMy hon. Friend is making a brilliant speech. On her point about enforcement, one thing the Government could commit to this afternoon is the Prime Minister appointing a new…13 Jul 2023HANSARDIllicit Finance: War in UkraineI am grateful to the Minister for giving way; she is being characteristically generous. Could she tell the House whether that bearing down on economic criminals will include…13 Jul 2023HANSARD Global Climate and Development FinanceI beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to require the Secretary of State to publish proposals for increasing the on-lending of UK Special Drawing Rights via the…28 Jun 2023HANSARD Repurposing Russian Assets to Rebuild UkraineWill the Minister clarify the press release issued by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office on 19 May? It said that “consistent with our laws, Russia’s sovereign assets…27 Jun 2023HANSARD Repurposing Russian Assets to Rebuild UkraineMy right hon. Friend the Member for Barking (Dame Margaret Hodge) has provoked me into intervening. Would we not be better served in the House if the Office of Financial Sanctions…27 Jun 2023HANSARD Repurposing Russian Assets to Rebuild UkraineI thank the Minister for giving way; he is being characteristically generous. We might as well cut to the nub of the debate. Is it his ambition to bring forward to this House a…27 Jun 2023HANSARD Repurposing Russian Assets to Rebuild UkraineI would like to start with a word of praise for what was a brilliant opening speech by my right hon. Friend the Member for Tottenham (Mr Lammy), the shadow Foreign Secretary. He…27 Jun 2023