Exiting the European Union (Sanctions)

With this it will be convenient to discuss the following:

Motion 3—Sanctions—

That th...

As you have said and with your permission, Mr Speaker, I think the House will appreciate it if I ...

I am pleased that the Minister has said that the EU sanctions list will, in effect, be rolled ove...

I can confirm that there is no such intention. Indeed, the intention and the expectation is that ...

The Minister mentioned the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Bill. While we are talking about s...

I say to my hon. Friend that I will come on to that in just a second. I will answer the question ...

Will the Minister give way?

No. Let me just take my hon. Friend through this, and then he can come back again if he wishes. I...

The Minister is being very generous. May I ask him why not a single individual Russian is on any ...

First, I say to my hon. Friend that this is not just against Russians. If people have violated hu...

I am a bit confused about the Government’s attitude. The permanent under-secretary gave one reaso...

What the hon. Gentleman says is not consistent with our legal advice. We have to make sure that a...

Can the Minister therefore confirm—this is what I think he is saying—that all the individuals and...

I perhaps feel a little prime ministerial when I say that I refer the right hon. Lady to the answ...

indicated dissent.

The hon. Gentleman is shaking his head. He is welcome to intervene and say why, but I can assure ...

I did not seek to intervene, but I am happy to. I am unclear. Is the Minister saying that, where ...

As I said earlier, it is possible that, in exceptional circumstances, a person or an entity might...

I think the Minister is saying that one reason why it will not be possible is that there are so m...

All I can say is that the timeline of many things at the moment is difficult to forecast, so I ho...

Just say when.

As soon as we are practically able to do so.

Our American allies have a disagreement with our European allies about the extent of sanctions ag...

If we are looking at individual cases such as that, we are straying slightly outside the terms of...

I am extremely grateful to the Minister for giving way. Is there any evidence that, since the imp...

Again, I think that is straying into detailed analysis of the working of the sanctions, which is ...

I am grateful to the Minister for giving way. He will know that, since the implementation of thos...

Again, the purpose of this debate is not to look at the way the sanctions are working; it is mere...

Order. I do not think we are straying too far. I think it will help people to make up their mind ...

I am not as keen as you, Mr Deputy Speaker, to open the envelope quite so far, because I do not a...

I am grateful to the Minister for giving way. Perhaps he could ask his colleague who is in charge...

I would be delighted to put that obligation on him—it causes me no difficulty whatever. Of course...

In relation to the situation in Venezuela, there has obviously been massive concern on both sides...

The answer is that we wish there was clearer evidence that they are working. I was at the meeting...

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At the risk of turning this into a general debate on Venezuela, I will give way to both hon. Gent...

Given what the Minister has said, does he envisage an increase or a reduction in sanctions in rel...

It is possible that we could do some things on our own and increase sanctions in that way. We hav...

The Minister speaks very eloquently about the discussions that are currently under way. How does ...

It is a very fair question to ask whether, given the influential role we have had within the EU b...

I am not in any way opposing the regulations, but if we are going to continue, and we should, to ...

I think the right hon. Lady may have misunderstood my answers. She is right that the question has...

Will the Minister give way?

I will let the hon. Gentleman slip through the net.

I am very grateful to the Minister. I do not want to flog the issue, but in circumstances where t...

I am not sure it would quite work in that way, but I am very happy to write to the hon. Gentleman...

Mr Deputy Speaker, I am afraid I have taken the exact contrary interpretation to the Minister of ...

Does the hon. Lady not agree that until the fact that the Tatmadaw retains a fixed percentage of ...

The right hon. Gentleman makes a fair point. One of the general problems has been that we were so...

I agree with everything that my hon. Friend just said. Is there not a further reason why this is ...

That is true as well. I was going to go on to say what, more positively, we would like to see. We...

On the Lima group, what pressure does the hon. Lady think that we can all bring to bear on Mexico...

It would not be helpful to go along with American calls for, or the suggestion that there might b...

Sure. If we have time, we will allow him to come back—of course we will—but it is in your hands a...

I am very grateful to you, Mr Deputy Speaker.

First, why was £80,000-worth of weapons mater...

I am grateful to the hon. Lady for giving way, because this deserves an immediate answer. The For...

I am interested to hear the Minister’s response, because if the Government wish to tighten the sa...

The hon. Lady has made a powerful case about the things we are trying to put right in the countri...

That was going to be my concluding point.

The hon. Lady made the point about extraterritoriality, but the UK Government, at the same time a...

There was a lot of conversation about having some euro vehicles to facilitate trade and investmen...

I draw hon. Members’ attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests, inclu...

My right hon. Friend has rightly outlined the malevolent influence of Iran across the world, incl...

My hon. Friend, who is very well informed about these matters, makes an entirely valid point abou...

In her powerful speech, my right hon. Friend referred to the nefarious activities of Iran through...

That is a serious problem. Iran is the single biggest threat to stability in the whole region, an...

I do not want to turn this into a geography lesson, but does my right hon. Friend agree that the ...

My right hon. Friend makes an important point that further strengthens the case for supporting th...

I am pleased to have the opportunity to contribute to the debate. I support all the motions, beca...

Can the hon. Gentleman give an example of anyone in this House “cheering with delight” when peopl...

I shall be happy to get back to the hon. Gentleman, but if he is saying that there has never been...

On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. An accusation—a very serious accusation—has been made by ...

I think that the hon. Gentleman has made the point that he wished to make.

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I refer the hon. Gentleman, courteously but firmly, to the speech I made at Chatham House outlini...

I stand absolutely by my statement that there have been occasions in this House when Members on t...

On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. The hon. Gentleman may well wish to move on, but he has j...

The right hon. Gentleman has put forward his view and corrected the statement. The fact is that i...

Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. I will move on to the plight of Guinea-Bissau, which we have heard ...

Order. These other countries are not part of the debate. I have allowed the debate to be opened u...

I conclude simply by saying that we support the continued imposition of economic sanctions agains...

I rise to support the Government’s statutory instrument on sanctions on Venezuela. As chair of th...

Order. I think that the point has been made, but we need to get back to the debate. A very good p...

Let us move on with the need for sanctions against Venezuela. That regime has not entered hardshi...

Is it not a fact that the richest person in Venezuela is the daughter of former President Hugo Ch...

The hon. Gentleman is 100% on the money. That is the inconvenient truth that many Opposition Memb...

In support of my hon. Friend’s case, has he noticed that this is shown not just in the oil price,...

My right hon. Friend is absolutely right. Not only has the volume of oil produced collapsed, but ...

Following the intervention the hon. Member for Ilford South (Mike Gapes), a fact that I find most...

Order. May I just remind the House that we have quite a lot of other speakers?

Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. I hear your guidance and I know that there is much pressure on our ...

I pay tribute to the work that my hon. Friend does in Latin America. Does he agree that Petrocari...

Absolutely. That point stands well on its own.

This should be an opportunity for the House ...

The main issue that we are considering this afternoon is what our independent system of sanctions...

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way. It is always worth hearing him on these subje...

The right hon. Gentleman has virtually stolen the words out of my mouth. He is absolutely right, ...

Order. I did say that we could open the envelope, but I did not mean that we had to open every pa...

You are quite right, Mr Deputy Speaker, and I am very close to finishing.

In making my last...

I shall be brief, and I shall not take interventions, because others wish to speak. It is disappo...

This debate is probably unnecessary, because we have not yet left the European Union and we almos...

Does my hon. Friend agree that Iran’s desire to wipe out the state of Israel is based on an ideol...

Iran was sanctioned not for its generalised foreign policy, or for its abuse of human rights inte...

I want to let the Minister wind up, so this is a perfect time for you to come back into the Chamb...

I am vice-chairman of the all-party parliamentary group on Venezuela.

If we ever manage to ...

I am grateful to hon. and right hon. Members for their contributions, which spread quite widely b...

Stick to 3.40 pm and you will be all right.

Very good.

We will do that at the eleventh hour, as it were, to avoid asset flight by not g...

Yes.

In which case, having covered so much already, I commend these regulations to the House.

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