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HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Second sitting)Q You talked about outsourcing identity verification, but is that not just a recipe for disaster? If we keep on outsourcing these things, rather than Companies House controlling…25 Oct 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Second sitting)Will you say a word about why that is? The system seems not to be working, so what do we need to do to fix it? Commander Adams: I will start and then bring in Simon, who is an…25 Oct 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (First sitting)Point taken. Nigel Kirby: If I misled you or you took it that way, that was not intended. On your question about if I were still there, I am sure that Graeme Biggar, the DG of…25 Oct 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (First sitting)Q Okay. I was going to ask something about counter-terrorism, but I will not if that is not your area. So my only question is to both of you: if you had an opportunity to amend…25 Oct 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (First sitting)Q Very diplomatically put. Would you agree that the Bill will not be worth the paper it is written on if the enforcement agencies are not properly resourced to do the job? Nigel…25 Oct 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (First sitting)Q Thank you for giving me another go. I have two quick questions. If you had a blank sheet of paper and you were able to amend the Bill in the cryptoassets space, what would be…25 Oct 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Second sitting)Q The challenge that we have is that money laundering prosecutions have dropped by 35% over the last five years in the UK, and the number of crimes being investigated— […25 Oct 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Second sitting)Q The national policing fraud strategy of 2019 said that, although the majority of the police response to fraud is delivered by local forces, capability and capacity varies widely…25 Oct 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (First sitting)Q This is the same question that I asked our previous witnesses: if you had the opportunity to amend the Bill, what would you do? You have flagged up one area in which you are…25 Oct 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (First sitting)Q Thank you. Ms Trozze, I know that you are a specialist on crypto, so would you like to add anything to that? Arianna Trozze: I would echo Andy’s point about the difficulty of…25 Oct 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (First sitting)Q Thank you, Mr Kirby. You have used terms such as “world-leading” and spoken quite positively about what is happening in the UK. I have to say, as an interested observer, it does…25 Oct 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (First sitting)Q A couple of quick questions from me. First, on resourcing, the Bill puts a number of additional tasks, requirements and responsibilities on Companies House. How would you…25 Oct 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (First sitting)To both of you, if you do not mind. It would be good to hear from both of you on both questions. Nick Van Benschoten: My view is that, in terms of resourcing, there is a lot of…25 Oct 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (First sitting)On data sharing. Nick Van Benschoten: Each country has its own threats and problems. Singapore’s COSMIC database addresses particular exposures and problems that it has with…25 Oct 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (First sitting)Q Thank you very much. First of all, I have a question for you, Mr Gould. The national fraud policing strategy states that the police’s response to fraud is delivered by local…25 Oct 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (First sitting)Q I am not sure if you were in for the previous session, but our witnesses talked about the need to be able to transfer crypto into physical assets or cash. What are your thoughts…25 Oct 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (First sitting)Q Thank you. I have a question on cryptoassets. Do you think, broadly speaking, that the enforcement agencies have the expertise that they need to deal with the economic crime…25 Oct 2022HANSARDFloating Offshore Wind ProjectsI congratulate the right hon. Member for Preseli Pembrokeshire (Stephen Crabb) on securing this vital debate. If the last 12 months have taught us anything, it is that if we are…18 Oct 2022HANSARDFloating Offshore Wind ProjectsThe right hon. Gentleman is being very generous in giving way, and I thank him for that. He is right that port infrastructure is vital, but another key part of our infrastructure…18 Oct 2022HANSARDFloating Offshore Wind ProjectsAll hon. Members raised concerns about the national grid, and landing and integrating power. Can the Minister say something about what action the Government are taking to resolve…18 Oct 2022