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HANSARDRussian Assets: SeizureAs ever, my hon. Friend is making a brilliant speech. I was shocked to hear that suspicious activity reports are not triggering enforcement actions for sanctions busting either.…14 Mar 2023HANSARDRussian Assets: SeizureThe Financial Times has revealed that the Wagner Group has channelled $250 million into its organisation through sanctions evasion. Is that not evidence that the sanctions…14 Mar 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe global crisis of malnutrition threatens the lives of 200 million people. Will the Development Minister look to support my early-day motion 951, which seeks to welcome the…14 Mar 2023HANSARDRussian Assets: SeizureThe right hon. Gentleman is making an excellent speech. Is he as worried as I am about this new trick that the Treasury is performing called “general licences”? There are now…14 Mar 2023HANSARDRussian Assets: SeizureI welcome the speech by the right hon. Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Sir Iain Duncan Smith), which I thought was excellent. I will supply three further thoughts and set…14 Mar 2023HANSARDRussian Assets: SeizureIt is crucial that we do that, and the spring meetings in Washington should provide a springboard, but the most efficient way of surging the necessary money into Ukraine is…14 Mar 2023HANSARDIntegrated Review RefreshI welcome what I heard was the recognition that when it comes to China we need to do far more to defend our values, while recognising that there are global public goods that we…13 Mar 2023HANSARD UkraineThe Foreign Secretary has made an outstanding start to the debate. Last week, the Vice-President of the United States said that the US has formally determined that Russia has…20 Feb 2023HANSARD UkraineMy right hon. Friend is making a brilliant speech. Was he as surprised as I was that there was so little mention of that kind of threat in the Integrated Review? Does he support…20 Feb 2023HANSARD UkraineWill the right hon. Gentleman give way?20 Feb 2023HANSARD UkraineIt is a great privilege to follow the excellent speech of the right hon. Member for South West Norfolk (Elizabeth Truss), as well as that of the right hon. Member for Uxbridge and…20 Feb 2023HANSARD UkrainePersonally, I think it would, but my key point to those on the Treasury Front Bench is: can we please short-circuit the time it takes to get from no to yes? We have gone through…20 Feb 2023HANSARD UkraineMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. The right hon. Member for South West Norfolk talked about the need for a global alliance to defend democracy—well, that global alliance has to…20 Feb 2023HANSARD UkraineThe whole of the House is grateful for the work of the right hon. and gallant Member, because we know that more people were prosecuted because of the work he did than otherwise…20 Feb 2023HANSARD UkraineWe may as well try to round out the cross-party consensus that I think is emerging. Would the hon. Member agree that we should be doing everything we can to send fast jets to…20 Feb 2023HANSARD UkraineWhile the Minister is going through his list, would he be good enough to explain to the House why the Americans have sanctioned three times more people associated with the Wagner…20 Feb 2023HANSARD Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency BillI salute the Minister’s leadership on much of this agenda when he was a brilliant Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee. He will not, however, want to go down in history as the…25 Jan 2023HANSARDWagner Group: Sanctions RegimeThis is outrageous. The Minister has just confessed to the House that sanctions implementation is out of ministerial control. The result is that a waiver was issued for a warlord…25 Jan 2023HANSARD Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency BillI am grateful to my hon. Friend for making such a brilliant speech. Among the greatest victims of economic crime right now are the people of Ukraine. One virtue of his own…25 Jan 2023HANSARD Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency BillIs my hon. Friend scandalised as I am that at the moment only 40% of fines from economic criminals are recycled back into the business of tackling economic crime, whereas in the…25 Jan 2023