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HANSARD East Birmingham Tram LineI am grateful for the opportunity to make a few brief remarks and look forward to what I hope will be some warm words of welcome from the Minister, who I know shares the ambition…26 Jun 2023HANSARD National Security BillThe Minister is one of the House’s experts on the malign influence of foreign money in this country and the creation of Londongrad, so he knows all too well that money from…26 Jun 2023HANSARD East Birmingham Tram LineI am grateful to the Minister for giving way, because I sense that he is about to conclude. The clear thing that we will need to discuss when we meet is how to ensure that the…26 Jun 2023HANSARD National Security BillI thank the Minister for giving way once again. He is being characteristically generous. We may as well test the argument he is rehearsing against facts that are now known. Mr…26 Jun 2023HANSARD National Security BillMy hon. Friend is making a brilliant speech. Does she agree that the scale of this potential risk is now unprecedented, not least because in 2019 we saw the most expensive…26 Jun 2023HANSARDGlobal Military OperationsWill the hon. Gentleman give way on that point?14 Jun 2023HANSARDGlobal Military OperationsI am very grateful to the right hon. and gallant Member for giving way. Today is the 41st anniversary of the liberation of the Falkland Islands, and it is an appropriate moment to…14 Jun 2023HANSARDGlobal Military OperationsI am very grateful. I wanted to underline the point the hon. Gentleman is making so eloquently to the House. The risk is even greater than he has set out, because global defence…14 Jun 2023HANSARDGlobal Military OperationsI will make three very quick points about focus versus spread, the need to prepare for economic warfare and the importance of expanding our soft power. The beginning of the debate…14 Jun 2023HANSARDDraft Register of Overseas Entities (Penalties and Northern Ireland Dispositions) Regulations 2023I am grateful for the clarification. Will the Minister also clarify whether, if the penalty regime stops people trading with an unregistered overseas entity, they could still…22 May 2023HANSARDG7 SummitI declare an interest as chair of the international Parliamentary Network on the World Bank & International Monetary Fund. I also welcome the commitment in paragraph 10 of the G7…22 May 2023HANSARDDraft Register of Overseas Entities (Penalties and Northern Ireland Dispositions) Regulations 2023It is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Dame Angela. I wish to add three points to the excellent speech by my hon. Friend the Member for Feltham and Heston. The Minister…22 May 2023HANSARDStrategically Important Non-aligned CountriesOne of the fastest ways we could transform our influence with non-aligned countries is to step up and help to lead the debate about the availability of green and development…02 May 2023HANSARD Human Rights Protections: PalestiniansLet me add my thanks to the hon. Member for Dundee West (Chris Law) for securing this debate, and associate myself with every word of the condolences that he offered to those who…20 Apr 2023HANSARD Human Rights Protections: PalestiniansThe Minister has just set out four sets of sins that the UK Government have protested about to the Government of Benjamin Netanyahu. He must therefore accept that our words are…20 Apr 2023HANSARD Points of OrderOn a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I ask for your advice. On a shameful day in 2021, the Treasury issued a sanctions waiver for Yevgeny Prigozhin to hire lawyers from…18 Apr 2023HANSARD Business of the HouseCan we have a debate in Government time on the activities of short-selling attack group Viceroy Research and its leader Fraser Perring? I am told that it is working hand in glove…16 Mar 2023HANSARDRussian Assets: SeizureI will say a word about each of those things after I have given way to the hon. Gentleman.14 Mar 2023HANSARDRussian Assets: SeizureI will come to that now. There are three things that we will need to do. It is not just about private wealth; it is about public wealth—the assets of the Russian central bank. We…14 Mar 2023HANSARDRussian Assets: SeizureI think that we can use the same tactics to seize private and public assets, but I am conscious that we have to change the context and parameters of international law first. That…14 Mar 2023