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HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency BillThe noble Lord will not be surprised to know that I do not know, but I will ask. The Government will endeavour to update your Lordships’ House on their plans for progressing…09 May 2023HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency BillI cannot provide that reassurance; I do not know who will be involved, but I will endeavour to find out and will write. I shall return to where I was in my speech. In addition,…09 May 2023HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency BillMy Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Hain, and the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett, for their amendments in this group. I also thank all noble Lords for speaking in this debate. I…09 May 2023HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency BillThose are good questions; I will come on to them. Funding and resourcing is a subject that is covered in the fraud strategy. I will not go over the details. At the most recent…09 May 2023HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency BillI do not know. I will find out and write to the noble Lord. For now, I hope he will accept that it is not the role of the Government to set up parliamentary committees and so will…09 May 2023HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency BillAs I said, it was also to do with the disclosure of sensitive details related to operational partners—the sorts of things that protect our border and the work of law enforcement…09 May 2023HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency BillMy Lords, I thank all noble Lords, who have made some extremely thought-provoking points in this debate. I will do my best to address them all. Scrutinising the activity of…09 May 2023HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency BillAs the noble Lord has drawn on the key facts document, it is important for me to provide a bit of clarification. It was published on 4 March 2022 for the previous Bill, not this…09 May 2023HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency BillI am certainly happy to take my noble friend’s concerns back but, as regards targets, that would invite me to stray into operational matters, which I will not do.09 May 2023HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency BillI am not sure that the question is entirely valid with regard to generating money. The fact is that, since their introduction in 2017, four of these have been issued in relation…09 May 2023HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency BillMy Lords, I thank noble Lords for proposing their amendments. I thank the noble Lord, Lord Coaker, for moving Amendment 93 on behalf of the noble Lord, Lord Hunt of Kings Heath. I…09 May 2023HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency BillI have already said that we will publish a number of reports on this on 1 September, so I would hope for some more clarity then, but I shall endeavour to find out more information…09 May 2023HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill09 May 2023HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency BillI would say that it is the same thing; perhaps we can debate that as well. The Serious Fraud Office investigates and prosecutes the most complex cases of fraud, bribery and…09 May 2023HANSARDPolice: Restoring Public ConfidenceMy Lords, I too am grateful to my noble friend Lord Lexden for securing this debate. I salute his tenacity—an easier word to pronounce. I also thank all those who have…03 May 2023HANSARDPolice Uplift ProgrammeThe noble Lord asks a question which I cannot answer at the moment. I will endeavour to find out those statistics and I would hope that some of those questions about resourcing…02 May 2023HANSARDPolice Uplift ProgrammeMy noble friend makes some very good points. Obviously, as she would expect me to say, these are matters for local police forces themselves. However, I absolutely take the point,…02 May 2023HANSARDPolice Uplift ProgrammeI hope that I have gone into reasonable detail about the standards of vetting that are required and expected. I also point out that there were 10 applicants for every job, which…02 May 2023HANSARDPolice Uplift ProgrammeMy Lords, in fact there are more policemen than under the last Labour Government: 3,542 more, to be precise. The fact is that demand for policing has changed since 2010, which is…02 May 2023HANSARDPolice Uplift ProgrammeMy Lords, the noble Baroness asks me to comment on operational policing matters. I have talked a bit about neighbourhood policing activities; I have also, on a number of…02 May 2023