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HANSARD 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 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 BillYes. It is unusual for unity to break out on both sides of the House and on the Front and Back Benches. Given that ubiquity of unity, what, in the right hon. and learned…25 Jan 2023HANSARD Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency BillI am incredibly grateful to the right hon. and learned Gentleman for his generosity in giving way. We appear to have an overload of rumness here.25 Jan 2023HANSARD Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency BillIt is a pleasure to speak to new clauses 1 and 2 in my name and those of many others, and it is a pleasure to follow so many excellent contributions to the debate. I hope it has…25 Jan 2023HANSARD Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency BillMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. I said earlier that London is now the preferred strike point for oligarchs in intimidating journalists. When the Foreign Policy Centre, whose…25 Jan 2023HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency BillWill the Minister give way?24 Jan 2023HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency BillLet me echo the wide welcome that the Minister has received at the Dispatch Box. Has he had a chance to reflect on how the report that parliamentarians need actually stretches…24 Jan 2023HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Billrose —24 Jan 2023HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency BillMy hon. Friend is making a brilliant speech. Does she agree that it is vital that we have a much more wide-ranging report on the nature of economic crime? We know that 10…24 Jan 2023HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency BillDoes the hon. Member agree that waivers for warlords is exactly the kind of information that the House would be interested in, to understand how effectively we are prosecuting…24 Jan 2023HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency BillDoes my right hon. Friend agree that if the Minister does not agree with new clause 20, he is in effect asking for powers without giving the House any confidence that we can…24 Jan 2023HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency BillI wholeheartedly agree with the content, sentiment, analysis and explanation that the hon. Member for Barrow and Furness (Simon Fell) gave the House. Like him, and like my right…24 Jan 2023HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Eighteenth sitting)I meant, in summary, the economic effect. The impact is that agencies have much greater latitude to bring cases against bad people in American courts without fear of what it will…24 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Eighteenth sitting)The Minister has had quite an education since becoming a Minister and joining the ranks of the Government, because, of course, it was in the Foreign Affairs Committee report on…24 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Eighteenth sitting)What has changed?24 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Eighteenth sitting)No one could accuse the Minister of being an innocent abroad in a world that is not innocent, but I have to ask him whether he seriously believes the content of the paragraphs…24 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Eighteenth sitting)As the Minister knows, I am one of the Members who pushed for the Government to toughen up their sanctions after they left so many people off the sanctions list the first time…24 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Eighteenth sitting)I am grateful for the chance to put the question where it belongs, which is back on the Minister. The question was very simple: how is he going to ensure that bad people who…24 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Eighteenth sitting)We may as well pursue this to its death—I am grateful to the Minister for being so generous in giving way. Let us take the example of Usmanov. He has only recently been…24 Nov 2022