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HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Tenth sitting)It is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Ms Elliott. When the Minister winds up the debate on the clause, will he say a little more about some of the information that the…08 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Ninth sitting)It is a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Ms Bardell. I fully appreciate the Government’s need to table amendments—the grind of Committee exposes all kinds of opportunities to…08 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Ninth sitting)I am sorry to intervene, but the Minister provokes me. A point to take away is that we are now bedevilled by a real problem in this country: responsibility for policing this area…08 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Ninth sitting)I was just going to give the Minister more time.08 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Ninth sitting)Will the Minister give way?08 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Ninth sitting)I don’t think that’s true!08 Nov 2022HANSARDHuman RightsI welcome the right hon. Gentleman, my constituency neighbour, to his place. Our ability to act as human rights defenders around the world would be much stronger if we…08 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Seventh sitting)Let me give the Minister a bit of feedback from my time as Chief Secretary to the Treasury. If a spending Minister comes before the Chief Secretary to say: “I’m really sorry, but…03 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Seventh sitting)Right. hon, I am afraid.03 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Seventh sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Elliott. I am sorry that I have not checked the sartorial guidance for the Committee, but I assume it is okay for me to speak…03 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Seventh sitting)The last Bill Committee I had the pleasure of serving on was for the Data Protection Act 2018, which implements the general data protection regulation and prescribes all manner of…03 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Seventh sitting)It seems that if somebody is subject to a travel ban, they will fail pretty much every “know your customer” rule for every financial institution in the country. Indeed, we have…03 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Seventh sitting)The Minister is being characteristically generous. As he reflects on the huge wisdom of the amendments tabled by my right hon. Friend the Member for Barking and perhaps returns to…03 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Seventh sitting)The Minister probably did not intend to set hares running, but he certainly has with his suggestions this morning. I know he will be alive to the Foreign Affairs Committee report…03 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Fifth sitting)That is an important point. The Minister is basically telling the Committee that he wants to ensure that the verification checks are proportionate, but across Government—in the…01 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Fifth sitting)Could the Minister also clarify his target for compliance? I hope it is 100%, but if he could clarify that as well, I would be grateful.01 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Sixth sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Bardell. I support the amendment, and that tabled by my right hon. Friend the Member for Barking, because in many ways they…01 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Sixth sitting)Perhaps the Committee could take more comfort from the approach the Minister has enunciated this afternoon if he could give us a sense of how many companies he thinks Companies…01 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Sixth sitting)Will the Minister give way?01 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Sixth sitting)The Minister is being characteristically generous in giving way. The problem the Committee has with the argument about ex post facto regulation is that, if we take the example I…01 Nov 2022