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Salisbury Incident 2018: Update

Proceeding contribution from Yvette Cooper (Labour) in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 21 September 2021. It occurred during Ministerial statement on Salisbury Incident 2018: Update.

I thank the Home Secretary for this statement, and for the work of the police and of the intelligence and security agencies to have brought us to this point. The Salisbury attack was a truly appalling attack on UK soil, with charges now laid against the agents of a foreign state. It should be unthinkable that this could happen and for it to come at the same time as the ECHR confirmation that Russia was behind the murder of Alexander Litvinenko is further disturbing evidence of Russia’s willingness to use dangerous weapons in other countries. I support the work the Government have been doing on this, but may I ask her specifically about the review launched three years ago into the so-called “golden visas”, the tier 1 visas, to look at

oligarchs with close links to the Russian state who might be using criminal money and others? We have not heard any update on that review, so will she update the House now on what work is being done?

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
701 c168 
Session
2021-22
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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