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HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency BillIt is unprecedented and very rude of me, but there seems to be rather a lot going on at the moment.25 Apr 2023HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency BillMy noble friend’s own Amendment 76H is in a different group to this one, but it is likely that we will debate it later today. By then, he may not have had time to take further…20 Apr 2023HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency BillMy Lords, I entirely agree with what the noble Lord has just said. Trusts are and have been frequently discussed in this Bill and its predecessors as one of the most effective…20 Apr 2023HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency BillMy Lords, I have an interest to declare in that I am presently instructed by the Government of the Isle of Man in a legal matter. Under the new rules of the House, that is…20 Apr 2023HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency BillThe noble Lord saw my noble friend Lord Faulks nodding. The fact that we went to the same school, the same college at Oxford and the same Inn of Court has absolutely no bearing on…20 Apr 2023HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency BillThe noble Lord is right, and it has not been an easy history, but these small jurisdictions have a choice. I am well aware of the criminal cases currently going on in the Turks…20 Apr 2023HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency BillMy Lords, I agree with the arguments presented by the noble Lords, Lord Cromwell and Lord Vaux, in respect of their amendments. I have a great deal of sympathy for the thrust of…18 Apr 2023HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency BillMy Lords, I have added my name in support of Amendments 69 to 71. I agree with what my noble friend Lady Altmann said in support of her own amendment and very largely agree with…18 Apr 2023HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency BillMy Lords, I, too, have put my name to my noble friend’s Amendment 72. He is quite right: in business, what gets measured gets done. That is also true of politics: one has only to…18 Apr 2023HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency BillTo add further irrelevance—no, just irrelevance; I apologise to my noble friend—I am pleased that the noble Lord, Lord Ponsonby, and the Labour Party have moved this amendment.…18 Apr 2023HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency BillWe had a great deal of fun working out which part of the identified person’s anatomy should form the main part of the photograph. I am happy to say that the noble Lord, Lord…18 Apr 2023HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency BillI was interested in the intervention from the noble Lord, Lord Vaux. I have been listening carefully to what my noble friend the Minister has been saying. When we have these…18 Apr 2023HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency BillI do not want to prolong this debate because, although it is fascinating, it is something that can be dealt with in the period between now and Report. Perhaps my noble friend…27 Mar 2023HANSARDNational Security BillAfter that intervention, the noble Lord, Lord Marks, had better watch out for his safety. I begin by thanking the noble Lord, Lord Marks, one of the co-signatories of Amendment…01 Mar 2023HANSARDNational Security BillI would not describe the noble Lord as a young man in a hurry although, had he waited just a second or two, he would have discovered that he and I might be in closer agreement…01 Mar 2023HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency BillMy Lords, I hope I am not going to disappoint the noble Lord, Lord Stevens, because I doubt I shall be either original or adequately brief. I will not be original because I have…08 Feb 2023HANSARDPublic Order BillMy Lords, PACE is nearly 40 years old. Is not the training completed?07 Feb 2023HANSARDPublic Order BillMy Lords, I could not put a cigarette paper between the arguments of the two previous speakers and those I would like to make. If we are not careful, we will move to preventing…07 Feb 2023HANSARDCommon Frameworks (Common Frameworks Scrutiny Committee Report)My Lords, I shall be brief, because the noble Baroness, Lady Andrews, in her gentle but devastating analysis of our committee’s work and the oversight we gave to the work of the…02 Feb 2023HANSARDParole Board (Amendment) Rules 2022Does my noble and learned friend think it appropriate that a political Minister should be the conveyor of a single view—the only view—on a matter for quasi-judicial discussion?18 Oct 2022