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HANSARDDraft Animal Welfare (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2022I am grateful. Obviously, the debate in the House over the coming week is about the law-breaking Northern Ireland Protocol Bill. It is a matter of great concern to Members in all…04 Jul 2022HANSARDDraft Animal Welfare (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2022Before the Minister concludes, will she give way?04 Jul 2022HANSARD Northern Ireland Protocol BillMy right hon. Friend is making a brilliant speech. Is he aware of comments by the US trade representative Ambassador Tai, from Speaker Pelosi and indeed from a host of our…27 Jun 2022HANSARD Levelling-up and Regeneration BillCould the Minister say a word about how he will use the missions to drive the reduction of inequalities in our country? One approach that the Labour Government tried was the use…08 Jun 2022HANSARD Levelling-up and Regeneration BillI think that what unites us across the House is an ambition to avoid the postcode where someone is born defining their possibilities in life. I think that that is something we…08 Jun 2022HANSARD National Security BillThe right hon. Member puts his finger on precisely the lesson that we should draw from allies such as the United States. Today, the United States has a battery of eight types of…06 Jun 2022HANSARD National Security BillI leave that to the judgment of the House in the debates that we have, but we must make the framework coherent, because, frankly, it is not coherent today. My second point is…06 Jun 2022HANSARD National Security BillPerhaps no one in this House has done more than the hon. Gentleman to expose the hybrid warfare and divide-and-rule tactics of Russia, but we are wide open to them, not least…06 Jun 2022HANSARD National Security BillI apologise to the Home Secretary, who is not in her place, for missing the first 11 minutes of her opening speech. As I think the Minister will have spotted, there is wide…06 Jun 2022HANSARD National Security BillI am grateful to the Minister for giving way, and appreciate the way in which he is stepping through these points. Is an offence created by the provider of a social media platform…06 Jun 2022HANSARDUkraineDid my hon. Friend watch the coverage of the occupation of Mr Deripaska’s mansion yesterday? None of us condones that kind of behaviour, but there were more Crown servants there…15 Mar 2022HANSARDUkraine UpdateI, too, want to thank the Secretary of State for Defence. It is now very clear that we need to re-contain Russia, which will mean resupplying Ukrainian forces, refortifying our…09 Mar 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) BillI am grateful for your guidance, Dame Eleanor, because I think I have made my point: the Government need to take on more power to seize and freeze these assets. The final point I…07 Mar 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) BillThank you for calling me to speak, Dame Eleanor. I thank the Minister for his presentation to the House and for the spirit that I thought he brought to his remarks at the outset.…07 Mar 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) BillWe can see that the sanctions regulations will become much stronger, but our sanctions regime is still a long way short of the kind of sanctions that have been imposed on, for…07 Mar 2022HANSARD Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) BillDoes the hon. Lady share my concern that there are still 11,000 companies at Companies House that do not have a person of significant control registered, yet there have been only…07 Mar 2022HANSARD SanctionsMy right hon. Friend is absolutely right. We are now seeing a sanctions gap emerge, where the UK is the soft touch, the weakest link, and the slowest to the punch. None of us in…01 Mar 2022HANSARD SanctionsThe right hon. Gentleman might have had a similar letter. Mine is many, many pages long and must have cost an absolute fortune. It says: “Our client did not know, and cannot…01 Mar 2022HANSARD SanctionsMy hon. Friend is right. There is a secondary question that the Minister needs to clear up: if a Russian oligarch has a mortgage on a mansion, is the bank that holds the mortgage…01 Mar 2022HANSARD SanctionsThat could well be the case, but if the Paymaster General has told us this afternoon that nothing is off the table, then we in this House need to hold him to his word and ask him…01 Mar 2022