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HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency27 Apr 2023HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate TransparencyMy noble friend will be aware that this will be a cross-departmental meeting, and I have not seen the proposed agenda, but I will certainly take her comments back. I meant to say…27 Apr 2023HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate TransparencyI am afraid that I cannot confirm that. I do not know, but I will find out. I will go back to Amendment 100 and talk about the identification doctrine. As noble Lords are aware,…27 Apr 2023HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate TransparencyI thank the noble Lord for that information; I will come back on that.27 Apr 2023HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate TransparencyAbsolutely; I shall get my abacus out. I turn to Amendment 101 on senior managers’ liability for failing to prevent economic crime, also tabled by my noble and learned friend Lord…27 Apr 2023HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate TransparencyMy Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Alton of Liverpool, for his amendment and for his kind words. I echo the words of my noble friend Lady Altmann about his work in so many…27 Apr 2023HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate TransparencyThe noble Lord has strayed into an area with which I am not familiar. I shall have to write to him.27 Apr 2023HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency27 Apr 2023HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate TransparencyI beg to move.27 Apr 2023HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate TransparencyMy Lords, in moving government Amendment 84A, I will also speak to other government amendments in this group, which create a failure to prevent fraud offence. I first thank the…27 Apr 2023HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency27 Apr 2023HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate TransparencyMy Lords, I thank all noble Lords—too numerous to mention—who have participated in this debate, and I shall try to address all the points put to me, but I apologise if I do not…27 Apr 2023HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate TransparencyI am happy to investigate whether that is possible. If it is, I will do so. An affirmative power to add a threshold in future, as proposed by the noble Lord’s amendments, would…27 Apr 2023HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate TransparencyWe will come on to this in more detail on a later group. Perhaps we should leave the detail of this debate until the third group, which we will get to at some point.27 Apr 2023HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate TransparencyI appreciate the point that the noble Lord was making and apologise for not addressing it more directly. I will refrain from answering that now and will write. I think I know how…27 Apr 2023HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate TransparencyYes, I am happy to give that reassurance.27 Apr 2023HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency27 Apr 2023HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency27 Apr 2023HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate TransparencyMy Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Bowles of Berkhamsted, and my noble friend Lady Morgan of Cotes for their amendments on failure to prevent economic crime, and all noble…27 Apr 2023HANSARDCorruptionMy Lords, I cannot improve on the words of the Prime Minister when he was asked about this subject. He pointed out that there has been “widespread recognition and support for the…26 Apr 2023