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HANSARDGambling-related HarmIt is a privilege to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Rees. I will be reasonably brief, as the hon. Lady—in this case, my hon. Friend—the Member for Swansea East (Carolyn Harris)…29 Mar 2022HANSARD Nationality and Borders BillMy hon. Friend will recall that last time we debated these provisions, we had an agreement that the Government in principle accepted the 12-month process. We expected to see it…22 Mar 2022HANSARD Nationality and Borders BillThe key thing is whether the Minister is prepared to consider tabling an amendment in the other place that puts the 12-month minimum into the Bill. If he does that, it will send a…22 Mar 2022HANSARD Nationality and Borders BillI will not be very long, because what I am going to speak about is quite narrow and I know others want to speak. Just before 2015, the Centre for Social Justice produced the…22 Mar 2022HANSARDIran DetaineesI congratulate my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary and my right hon. Friend the Minister for Europe and North America on their work in delivering this in short order after…16 Mar 2022HANSARDEngagementsAs the brilliant Ukrainian people fight and die on a daily basis for their rights of freedom and democracy, it is important that we make something very clear and I ask my right…16 Mar 2022HANSARDShale Gas ProductionThe important thing in all these matters is to remain pragmatic. We will need gas even after we hit 2050, because gas, for example, will be the way we make hydrogen and hydrogen…15 Mar 2022HANSARD Sir Richard ShepherdI apologise, Madam Deputy Speaker, because I got stuck trying to get back for this debate. I will not detain the House for long, because I know that my hon. Friend the Minister…10 Mar 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) BillI am grateful to my hon. Friend. I take it from what he has said that he accepts amendments 24, 25 and 26 in principle, and that he will seek in the other place to deliver their…07 Mar 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) BillI will give way first to the hon. Member for Walthamstow (Stella Creasy) and then to the hon. Member for Oxford West and Abingdon (Layla Moran).07 Mar 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) BillI am grateful to be called so early in the debate, and I rise to speak to the amendments standing in my name and those of colleagues on both sides of the House. I refer to…07 Mar 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) BillMy understanding is that the Government accept amendments 24 to 26 in principle and will work in the Lords to put something in the Bill that delivers what they suggest. Am I…07 Mar 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) BillI am grateful. Let me end by saying to my hon. Friend that this legislation is probably one of those great critical junctures at which we finally decide and agree in this place,…07 Mar 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) BillI was not going to intervene on my right hon. Friend but I have been looking back over the list in his new clause. Does he think there is a slight problem, in that the new clause…07 Mar 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) BillI wonder whether the right hon. Lady can see some way forward on a point that I made earlier. Europe, the UK and the USA all have separate sanctioning bodies, with the USA way…07 Mar 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) BillYes. I take the hon. Lady’s point. The point I am making is that we should rightly assume that this is their responsibility—there is no let-out. If they misrepresent their…07 Mar 2022HANSARD Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) BillI want my right hon. Friend to extend his speech slightly. Does he agree—I hope my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary is listening too—that whatever happens with the Bill, we…07 Mar 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) BillLet me simply say that the purpose of this debate is to tease out exactly that. I wish that we had less debate on Second Reading and more on the details, but that is water under…07 Mar 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) BillThat is exactly correct. All we are doing is asking for the UK to be at the same level as the United States, and I do not think that that is asking too much. I am co-chair of the…07 Mar 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) BillThey should, because the individual has to declare the whole chain. “Not knowing” would be no excuse. It would be the responsibility of individuals to know who those nominees were…07 Mar 2022