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HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (First sitting)Q Just to crystallise this, in your first answer, you described quite a simple layering exercise of money moving through five different banks, and you said that was a difficult…25 Oct 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (First sitting)Q So you would say to Members of Parliament who are worried about bad people transferring control of an economic asset to proxies that, at the moment, we do not have enough…25 Oct 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (First sitting)Q Right, so we have a risk of a two-tier verification regime: one operated by Companies House and one gold-standard regime operated by the regulated AML sector. The second thing I…25 Oct 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (First sitting)Q Nick, can I check two things that you said, which I think reveal some significant flaws in the Bill? First, I think you said that the verification regime proposed for Companies…25 Oct 2022HANSARD Avanti West Coast Contract RenewalDoes the Minister understand the depths of the rage of commuters in Birmingham and the west midlands that a company that is incapable of running a train service has just been…25 Oct 2022HANSARDConfidence in Her Majesty’s GovernmentWas it the right response to that poisoning to fix a meeting with a former intelligence agent of the KGB—a meeting without officials, minutes, or any report to this House of what…18 Jul 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime: Law EnforcementI thank the hon. Member for Thirsk and Malton (Kevin Hollinrake) and my right hon. Friend the Member for Barking (Dame Margaret Hodge) for bringing this debate to the House and…07 Jul 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime: Law EnforcementExactly. My hon. Friend is absolutely right. I will quickly run through five parts of the economic manifesto that have to be at the core of the next economic crime Bill. One of…07 Jul 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime: Law EnforcementThe hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. The joy of the Minister’s position must surely be that Members of this House have done the heavy lifting for him. Between us, we have…07 Jul 2022HANSARD Prime Minister’s Meeting with Alexander LebedevAccording to intelligence reports that I have seen, a serving FSB officer reported in 2017, “Aleksandr Lebedev is considered by the FSB to be an important asset”. More recently,…07 Jul 2022HANSARDStrategy for International DevelopmentI hope that the Minister may come on to not just the £10 billion of the aid budget, but the Government’s strategy on the £19 billion of special drawing rights.06 Jul 2022HANSARDStrategy for International DevelopmentI am grateful to the Chair of the Select Committee, who is making a brilliant speech. Does she agree that it is in Britain’s interests to use multilateral institutions, rather…06 Jul 2022HANSARDStrategy for International Developmentrose —06 Jul 2022HANSARDStrategy for International DevelopmentI am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman, my neighbour, but I disagree with him on this point. With the International Monetary Fund, for example, where we have collectively…06 Jul 2022HANSARDStrategy for International Developmentrose—06 Jul 2022HANSARDStrategy for International DevelopmentThe World Bank has just mobilised $170 billion of emergency response to the current crisis, but the first question everybody I have spoken to in the World Bank over the last year…06 Jul 2022HANSARDStrategy for International DevelopmentWill the Minister give way?06 Jul 2022HANSARDStrategy for International DevelopmentLet me declare my interest, at the outset of this debate, as the chair of the international parliamentary network on the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. I…06 Jul 2022HANSARDDepartment for EducationI add my congratulations to the Secretary of State on her new appointment. I serve the most income-deprived constituency in the country, yet I am very proud that my constituency…06 Jul 2022HANSARDCHOGM, G7 and NATO SummitsI was relieved to see the G7 recognise that 200 million people now face starvation around the world, along with the pledge to mobilise £100 billion in IMF special drawing rights…04 Jul 2022