Sanctions

I am unable to give specifics at this point, but we are liaising closely—I have spoken to our amb...

May I follow up the question that was well posed by the right hon. Member for Chingford and Woodf...

I will come to more details of the sanctions package and what we hope to achieve with it, but ult...

I am grateful to the Minister for giving way, because this point is very relevant. I do not mean ...

The instrument that we are discussing is a framework that allows us to deploy a range of measures...

Everything we have heard today has suggested that the Government have started from the point of s...

Earlier today my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister spoke in praise of the unanimity of voice t...

Will the Minister give way?

I am going to make some progress.

I assure the House that we will use this and other sancti...

I am very content with the leadership shown, but the point I want to understand more clearly is: ...

My right hon. Friend makes a good point. Let me make it absolutely clear: our aim is to prevent f...

My right hon. Friend will know from his career in the Army that the principle of “clout, don’t dr...

My hon. and gallant Friend makes a point I fully understand, and I can assure him the Government ...

Will the Minister give way?

I am going to make some progress. Trust me, I will give the hon. Gentleman an opportunity to inte...

Will the Minister give way now?

I will.

I am very grateful. One of the problems with the Government’s argument is that President Putin ha...

I have a huge amount of respect for the hon. Gentleman, as he knows—we speak when the cameras are...

The Minister is being very generous in giving way. May I press him on this point? Many of us feel...

I thank my right hon. Friend for giving me the opportunity to make clear our position. If this ha...

Will the Minister give way?

I have got to make some progress, but I will give way again.

I thank the Minister for kindly giving way. May I ask him to explain that point a little further?...

Yes. I am going to make progress, because some of the points raised in interventions will be cove...

Last time I saw the Minister, he was about to enter the UN Security Council, and I thank him for ...

As my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister said, we have brought forward measures that go further...

rose—

At this rate of interventions, I do not think we will get there—

Before the Minister imposes his discipline, will he give way?

I will give way first to the hon. Member for Glasgow South (Stewart Malcolm McDonald).

I am sure that what the right hon. Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Sir Iain Duncan Smith...

I share the hon. Member’s frustration about the level of disinformation put out through Russia To...

My right hon. Friend the Minister is making steady progress through his speech. I want to help hi...

I thank my right hon. Friend for his assistance. We are lucky that both officials in the Box and ...

Will the Minister give way?

I will make progress.

In response to President Putin’s decision last night to recognise sov...

I am very grateful to the Minister for giving way; he is being very generous. I am interested to ...

I would make the point that the sanctions regime set out today is the initial range of sanctions....

Will my right hon. Friend give way on that point?

I have got to progress. I will be crucified otherwise.

In addition, over the forthcoming we...

I wholly support that if that is what the Government intend to do—

Yes.

I know the Minister said that, but I am just trying to check whether he intends to do that under ...

The hon. Gentleman is right that there is a difference. Those in this House understand that there...

I thank the Minister for giving way. The Intelligence and Security Committee report is now nearly...

That is a very good question, but it has nothing to do with this SI.

Should Russia stage an...

Will the Minister give way?

I have to get on. These measures will curtail the ability of the Russian state, Russian companies...

I begin by thanking the Government for the confidential briefings that they have provided to the ...

My right hon. Friend mentions the UN. At the UN last week, I met Lesia Vasylenko and Alona Shkrum...

My hon. Friend is exactly right. I have already seen Ukrainian MPs saying today that they are dis...

I have to agree with my right hon. Friend about the limitations of the sanctions on those individ...

My right hon. Friend is exactly right: it could, but it needs enforcement and we need to hear mor...

My right hon. Friend is making a brilliant speech. When the new sanctioning regime was introduced...

My right hon. Friend is exactly right. In this city of more than 7 million people, with at least ...

Will my right hon. Friend give way?

I will give way one last time, and then make some progress.

It does sometimes seem that the Government play hot and cold with Russia. They accept donations f...

My hon. Friend has put it very well indeed. We must not fall into the trap of the past in taking ...

The Government have yet to enact the registration of overseas entities Bill, which would require ...

My hon. Friend is right. Why do we have a system that is so opaque? What is the delay? I have rai...

Quite a lot of people would like to speak in this time-limited debate. At this stage, I suggest n...

I welcome the Government’s plans for sanctions and increased action to try to clean up the mess i...

My hon. Friend is making a superb speech. One thing that often gets missed in this debate about h...

I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend on that. He is completely right, as usual, in highlighting...

I am going to bang on about the draft Registration of Overseas Entities Bill. I served on the pre...

The hon. Member is right that more legislation would help, but fundamentally we need the resource...

I am grateful to the Minister for advance sight of the statutory instrument and for our previous ...

I am grateful to be called at this particular point, Madam Deputy Speaker. So that I do not end u...

indicated assent.

I knew he would have it. We want to see that list actioned.

The trouble right now is that w...

Within 10 minutes of the Minister rising to his feet, the sanctions were already out of date beca...

My worry is very much that they know exactly what they are doing, because they know exactly what ...

I associate myself with everything that the right hon. Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (S...

Do we not need an update of the Treason Act? A treason charge can be laid only in relation to the...

I agree, and on all these promises of legislation, which I think it is being suggested will come ...

It is a privilege to follow the hon. Member for Rhondda (Chris Bryant). It is quite clear that de...

The hon. Member is making excellent points. I sat on the Joint Committee on the Draft Registratio...

We are 15 years late. It should not take the gravest crisis since world war two for us to get our...

It is a pleasure to follow that excellent speech.

There is an old saying that no matter how...

Hon. Members have been most disciplined in keeping their speeches to around 10 minutes, but I hop...

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. The virtue of speaking late in the debate is that I can keep my ...

I am listening with great care to my right hon. Friend’s important contribution. Does he agree th...

My right hon. and learned Friend’s point has a lot to commend it. I suggest to the Government tha...

My real worry is that Putin has actually been very clever: he has advanced into an area that his ...

My right hon. Friend makes a good point. If the scenario that plays out is the first of the ones ...

It is a pleasure to speak in this debate. I hope that the main thing that we are getting across t...

Can I say how heartening it has been to hear so much support for the brave Ukrainians who really ...

Like others who have spoken, I welcome the regulations that we are discussing tonight, but I am u...

It is clear that Putin is not afraid to weaponise his foreign policy through his armed forces, an...

Mr Putin may well have won, because we have not reacted hard enough. Small banks have been sancti...

That is certainly how it looks to me at this point in time, so it is important that we now move v...

I am going to do something slightly unusual and speak about the statutory instrument, although I ...

It is a pleasure to speak in this debate, and I congratulate all right hon. and hon. Members on t...

I thank the hon. Gentleman, my good friend. As I know, having spent a lot of time working in NATO...

I thank the right hon. Gentleman for that intervention. He always brings his wisdom and his knowl...

I first thank the Minister for his courtesy and that of his officials in discussing the measures ...

With the leave of the House, I will make a few concluding remarks and address some of the issues,...

Try sitting on this side.

No.

The House may be surprised to hear that I have taken a huge amount of positivity from t...

Will the Minister give way?

I will rush on, because I was excessively generous earlier. The question was asked: will these sa...

Right honourable.

Right honourable. Exactly. It is appropriate to say that; apologies. The right hon. Member for No...