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HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Ninth sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Bardell. I thank the Minister for his opening remarks. I recognise that clause 65 gives the Secretary of State the power to…08 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Ninth sitting)I thank the Minister for his intervention. The issue is not what we assume and hope might happen, but having some checks and balances on the use of powers. It is part of our…08 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Ninth sitting)I thank the Minister for his intervention.08 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Ninth sitting)Thank you, Ms Bardell. I thank my right hon. Friend for her intervention. To wrap up my remarks on this point, the Minister makes a valid point in relation to the types of cases…08 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Ninth sitting)I appreciate the opportunity. I therefore will not press amendment 10. Amendment 9 agreed to . Clause 65, as amended, ordered to stand part of the Bill . Clause 66 Allocation of…08 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Ninth sitting)I beg to move amendment 102, in clause 66, page 55, line 36, leave out “power” and insert “a duty”. This amendment would ensure that all directors would be issued with a unique…08 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Tenth sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Elliott. I thank the Minister for his remarks. We support the clause, which provides for a power to require additional…08 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Ninth sitting)That would be welcome. New clause 18 grants the Secretary of State the power to make regulations as they see fit, in order to protect material on the register. Further scrutiny…08 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Ninth sitting)I thank the Minister for his clarification. He did set out a little of that when he spoke to the new clauses. Given the speed with which we are going through the Bill, it is…08 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Ninth sitting)In the time that we have had, it has been difficult to go through exactly what all the new clauses and amendments mean for what is and is not hidden information. We may come back…08 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Ninth sitting)Yes. Thank you, Chair. I was just speaking briefly to clause 80. The amendment spells out that statements made by a person in response to that requirement can be used in criminal…08 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Ninth sitting)We do not have extensive remarks. As the Minister has outlined, the clause introduces a new power for the registrar to require information to determine whether someone has met the…08 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Ninth sitting)I thank the Minister for his response. What he said about points of detail is true to some extent, but not fully true as regards what the provisions could mean for companies that…08 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Ninth sitting)I will speak to clauses 76 to 79. I thank the Minister for his comments. He has outlined that clause 76 would amend the Companies Act 2006 to give the registrar the power to…08 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Ninth sitting)I thank the Minister for that intervention. If he means that the aims of the new clause are already included in the proposed operation of the system, that is helpful…08 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Ninth sitting)I am grateful for the opportunity to speak to new clauses 45 and 46, following the remarks of my hon. Friend the Member for Aberavon. He and the Minister highlighted how clause 68…08 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Ninth sitting)We have very few remarks to make. As the Minister has outlined, clause 67 amends the Companies Act to extend the list of material unavailable for public inspection to include “any…08 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Ninth sitting)I know the Minister is not intending to, and I would not want him to, misrepresent our position, but the difference between our views is generally whether there should be greater…08 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Ninth sitting)I thank the Minister for his remarks. The matter is so important that we will want to push the amendment to a vote. It may be that what the Minister has just said on Companies…08 Nov 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Ninth sitting)I would appreciate it if the Minister came back to me on that point, because I am not clear that section 1082 of the Companies Act, as amended by the Bill, will achieve what he…08 Nov 2022