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HANSARDRussian Assets: SeizureOf course, I completely agree with the hon. Gentleman on that. Interestingly, if we manage to criminalise the failure to disclose sanctioned assets, we are halfway there on his…14 Mar 2023HANSARDRussian Assets: SeizureI agree. These individuals, Abramovich and others, may want this to be done, but somebody has to do it for them, and my hon. Friend is absolutely right to follow the chain down,…14 Mar 2023HANSARDRussian Assets: SeizureI am beginning to feel that I am making a collective speech, because the right hon. Lady’s point is down here in my notes. It is better made by her than me, but I fully agree with…14 Mar 2023HANSARDRussian Assets: SeizureMy right hon. Friend is jumping ahead of me, so I will allow that point to stand for a minute. I pay tribute to the hon. Member for Rhondda (Sir Chris Bryant), whose ten-minute…14 Mar 2023HANSARDRussian Assets: SeizureI entirely agree. I was going to raise that point at the end of my speech, but never mind: this is a shared debate. I fully back that proposal, which is one of the recommendations…14 Mar 2023HANSARDRussian Assets: SeizureI must say, the hon. Lady’s debate was fascinating. She demonstrated that by our failure to follow this course, a UK company is essentially sanctioned because it is unable to get…14 Mar 2023HANSARDRussian Assets: SeizureI agree with the right hon. Gentleman; this is beginning to sound like one of those “golden visas”. It was golden in description, but dirty and leaden in reality, and I think this…14 Mar 2023HANSARDRussian Assets: SeizureI do agree with the right hon. Lady. We have a lot of Russian assets that are currently frozen, while Ukraine is screaming out for money and support to help all those devastated…14 Mar 2023HANSARDRussian Assets: SeizureBefore my hon. Friend disappears from the Chamber, may I say that this is a very timely debate? So much of it is connected to the last debate, which I congratulate him on…14 Mar 2023HANSARDRussian Assets: SeizureI beg to move, That this House calls on the Government to lay before Parliament proposals for the seizure of Russian state assets with the purpose of using such assets to provide…14 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillI rise to make a simple point, because in the time available that is all we can do. I will draw a little bit of light rather than heat into the issue. I want the Government to…13 Mar 2023HANSARDIntegrated Review RefreshI welcome some of the report, but I want to return to the issue of China, in which, as someone who has been sanctioned, I take a particular interest. I have to say that I am…13 Mar 2023HANSARD Brain Tumour Research FundingOn a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. I apologise to my hon. Friend the Member for St Ives (Derek Thomas) and to the House for intervening on this very important debate—like…09 Mar 2023HANSARD Business of the HouseI will not follow my right hon. Friend down the centre-forward path, as Tottenham did not succeed yesterday, but may I draw her attention to something in The Daily Telegraph…09 Mar 2023HANSARD Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation: Sanctions and TariffsI understand where the Minister is now, but is not the problem that there seems to be no exchange between Departments as to exactly how this works? It seems illogical to me that…08 Mar 2023HANSARD Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation: Sanctions and TariffsI congratulate the hon. Lady on securing this debate. I am the co-chair of the all-party parliamentary group on Magnitsky sanctions, and we recently looked carefully at the…08 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillI welcome my right hon. and learned Friend’s statement. Once we strip away the rhetoric, of course, the key to all this is how we save the lives of the people who are dying while…07 Mar 2023HANSARD Northern Ireland ProtocolMay I associate myself with my right hon. Friend’s comments on Betty Boothroyd, who was my first Speaker when I arrived here—she will be greatly missed—and also his comments on…27 Feb 2023HANSARD Governor of Xinjiang: UK VisitYes—he is not sanctioned. Why is he not sanctioned?09 Feb 2023HANSARD Governor of Xinjiang: UK VisitOn a point of order, Mr Speaker. May I seek through you a correction by the Minister of something he said earlier? He said that the Foreign Office had invited those who have fled…09 Feb 2023