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HANSARDEconomic 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 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Eighteenth sitting)I didn’t say that, did I?24 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Eighteenth sitting)I am grateful for the chance to clarify. The Minister is engaged in the old debating tactic of putting the question back on me, but the question is on him: how is he going to stop…24 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Eighteenth sitting)Will the Minister give way?24 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Eighteenth sitting)It is my last one.24 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Eighteenth sitting)The Minister is being characteristically generous with his time. Is he therefore reassuring the Committee that if the provisions in the Bill had been in place, Usmanov would have…24 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Eighteenth sitting)I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.24 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Eighteenth sitting)Because he is going to accept it.24 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Eighteenth sitting)My right hon. Friend is absolutely right that the whole strategy behind a strategic legal action against the public participant is not to win: they just want to damage their…24 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Eighteenth sitting)I am grateful for the chance to intervene, because I sense that the Minister has almost reached the conclusion of his remarks without giving the Committee the date on which a more…24 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Fifteenth sitting)No one else gets those!22 Nov 2022HANSARDG20The Prime Minister will know that the last G20 summit agreed to on-lend $100 billion of IMF special drawing rights to help tackle the crisis of food fragility and climate finance…17 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Twelfth sitting)It is a law unto itself.15 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Eleventh sitting)Break the mould!15 Nov 2022