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HANSARDIranian Regime: Threat to UKThe director general of MI5 recently outlined that, since January 2022, there have been at least 10 Iranian threats to kidnap or even kill UK-based individuals. The level of the…06 Feb 2023HANSARDIranian Regime: Threat to UKThe hon. Member is absolutely correct: the IRGC is a vicious organisation and its first victims are the Iranian people, who have been brutalised and murdered by that despotic…06 Feb 2023HANSARDIranian Regime: Threat to UKThe Government always keep all areas under review, and speculation has certainly been in that direction. What we have already done is sanction various different elements. Any…06 Feb 2023HANSARDIranian Regime: Threat to UKMy hon. Friend will know that it is not me he has to persuade in this matter and that there are many areas where I would like to go. I can assure him that the Government are…06 Feb 2023HANSARDIranian Regime: Threat to UKThe hon. Lady knows very well that the Government have already sanctioned many individuals inside the Iranian regime and have taken action on individuals who may have had access…06 Feb 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy right hon. Friend is right to ask the question, because fraud has been a blight on too many communities. I assure him that the fraud strategy that many of us have been working…06 Feb 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsGoing from freezing to seizing, as the hon. Gentleman knows, is a slightly difficult procedure under our laws, due to the rights that people have. We have looked at that matter…06 Feb 2023HANSARDTerrorism Prevention and Investigation MeasuresSection 19(1) of the Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures (TPIM) Act 2011 (the Act) requires the Secretary of State to report to Parliament as soon as reasonably…06 Feb 2023HANSARD Draft Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Codes of Practice) (Revision of Code H) Order 2023Thank you for your instruction, Mr Bone. I will stay in order if ever I am in your presence, as always, and as you always are, and Mrs Bone would be as well. Interference with or…31 Jan 2023HANSARD Draft Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Codes of Practice) (Revision of Code H) Order 2023I beg to move, That the Committee has considered the draft Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Codes of Practice) (Revision of Code H) Order 2023. It is a pleasure to work…31 Jan 2023HANSARD Draft Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Codes of Practice) (Revision of Code H) Order 2023I am very grateful to the hon. Lady for her support. She kindly asked me to write to her and I will do so, because there is a relatively detailed set of elements to consider. As…31 Jan 2023HANSARD Draft Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Codes of Practice) (Revision of Code H) Order 2023I would say very simply that the order is an updating. Some of the laws have changed because we have left the European Union, and some of the areas covered have changed because of…31 Jan 2023HANSARD Draft Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Codes of Practice) (Revision of Code H) Order 2023You are extremely generous, Mr Bone. The 2019 Act also amended section 41 of, and schedule 7 to, the Terrorism Act 2000 to give effect to a recommendation made by a former…31 Jan 2023HANSARD Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency BillTagged.25 Jan 2023HANSARD Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency BillMy hon. Friend is absolutely right, but he is also no doubt aware that there is much discussion in the Canadian legal community about whether those orders will be challenged in…25 Jan 2023HANSARD Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency BillIt is not the first time I have heard this speech.25 Jan 2023HANSARD Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency BillI will not, because I am going to close. Despite all the areas that we could have gone into, and would like to go into at a different time, the Bill is closely focused on economic…25 Jan 2023HANSARD Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency BillI am grateful to my hon. Friend for that and to the Under-Secretary for having had those conversations. He knows my support for her interest in this important matter. Clearly,…25 Jan 2023HANSARD Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency BillThe right hon. Gentleman is extremely kind about my former work and, typically, slightly less so about my current employ. He can be assured that, no doubt, it will be temporary,…25 Jan 2023HANSARD Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency BillI will give way; I should have known that I was lining that up.25 Jan 2023