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HANSARD Exiting the European Union (Sanctions)It is possible that we could do some things on our own and increase sanctions in that way. We have particular focus, through the City of London, on financial matters where we…09 Apr 2019HANSARD Exiting the European Union (Sanctions)The answer is that we wish there was clearer evidence that they are working. I was at the meeting of European Foreign Ministers yesterday in Luxembourg, where Venezuela was the…09 Apr 2019HANSARD Exiting the European Union (Sanctions)I would be delighted to put that obligation on him—it causes me no difficulty whatever. Of course I will do that. In Foreign Office questions and in Westminster Hall, we have many…09 Apr 2019HANSARD Exiting the European Union (Sanctions)It is a very fair question to ask whether, given the influential role we have had within the EU by being part of it, it will have a detrimental effect on the united front that…09 Apr 2019HANSARD Exiting the European Union (Sanctions)I think the right hon. Lady may have misunderstood my answers. She is right that the question has been asked three times and I have answered three times, but this is not actually…09 Apr 2019HANSARD Exiting the European Union (Sanctions)I will let the hon. Gentleman slip through the net.09 Apr 2019HANSARD Exiting the European Union (Sanctions)I am not sure it would quite work in that way, but I am very happy to write to the hon. Gentleman with our understanding of what we think the parliamentary engagement would be in…09 Apr 2019HANSARD Exiting the European Union (Sanctions)I am grateful to hon. and right hon. Members for their contributions, which spread quite widely but show the passions raised by this topic. I take my hon. Friend the Member for…09 Apr 2019HANSARD Exiting the European Union (Sanctions)I am grateful to the hon. Lady for giving way, because this deserves an immediate answer. The Foreign Office has not at any stage put any such pressure on the Bank of England. Any…09 Apr 2019HANSARD Exiting the European Union (Sanctions)I refer the hon. Gentleman, courteously but firmly, to the speech I made at Chatham House outlining what I believe to have been the real reasons over the past 30 years for the…09 Apr 2019HANSARD Exiting the European Union (Sanctions)I am not as keen as you, Mr Deputy Speaker, to open the envelope quite so far, because I do not actually deal with Burma. However, if the hon. Member for Cardiff Central (Jo…09 Apr 2019HANSARD Exiting the European Union (Sanctions)Again, the purpose of this debate is not to look at the way the sanctions are working; it is merely to set up the legal framework in which they can be allowed to work under our…09 Apr 2019HANSARD Exiting the European Union (Sanctions)Again, I think that is straying into detailed analysis of the working of the sanctions, which is not the subject of these statutory instruments.09 Apr 2019HANSARD Exiting the European Union (Sanctions)If we are looking at individual cases such as that, we are straying slightly outside the terms of this debate, which is about the framework for the operation of sanctions in these…09 Apr 2019HANSARD Exiting the European Union (Sanctions)As soon as we are practically able to do so.09 Apr 2019HANSARD Exiting the European Union (Sanctions)All I can say is that the timeline of many things at the moment is difficult to forecast, so I hope the hon. Gentleman will forgive me if I do not attempt to say exactly.09 Apr 2019HANSARD Exiting the European Union (Sanctions)As I said earlier, it is possible that, in exceptional circumstances, a person or an entity might not be transferred, but we do not expect that to be the case often, if at all.…09 Apr 2019HANSARD Exiting the European Union (Sanctions)I perhaps feel a little prime ministerial when I say that I refer the right hon. Lady to the answer I gave some moments ago, but the answer is the same: our intention is to…09 Apr 2019HANSARD Exiting the European Union (Sanctions)What the hon. Gentleman says is not consistent with our legal advice. We have to make sure that any application of the Magnitsky legislation fits legally and properly within any…09 Apr 2019HANSARD Exiting the European Union (Sanctions)First, I say to my hon. Friend that this is not just against Russians. If people have violated human rights anywhere in the world, they could come within the scope of the…09 Apr 2019