Sanctions

The instruments before us were laid under the powers provided by the Sanctions and Anti-Money Lau...

Let me take the right hon. and learned Gentleman back to what he said about the number of individ...

I note what the hon. Gentleman says, but it is not often that people refer to the mechanisms of t...

Will my right hon. and learned Friend update the House on what action the Government are taking t...

I thank my hon. Friend for his question, and of course he is right to focus on those areas in par...

I want to make a little progress. Last night, we laid new legislation in Parliament on financial ...

I am going to make a little progress and then I will give way. Sanctions announced by the UK and ...

I appreciate all that my right hon. and learned Friend is doing, but we are talking about the cro...

We work with our allies around the world on names. This is an effort between allies; we co-operat...

I want to pursue the point made by my hon. Friend the Member for Rhondda (Chris Bryant), because ...

Nothing is off the table. Everything is being considered and is open for consideration. We have r...

Let me make a little progress and then I will give way. The solidarity of NATO is resolute, which...

I suppose the frustration is that we have been told for a long time that economic crime and klept...

These powers will have a maximum penalty of up to 10 years’ imprisonment, so that is a “bite” if ...

It seems that the legal test required to sanction an individual is too high, because the Departme...

The House is as one on the wish and the need to apply these measures as expeditiously as possible...

The reason we co-ordinate with our allies is to make our policies effective. If the process of co...

I am so pleased that my right hon. Friend says that, because that is exactly what we are doing. T...

The objective of sanctions is to limit the escalation of hostilities. I hope we are able to effec...

That is what we all want to do. These measures will work; the reality is that they follow the mec...

I must make some progress. Around half of Russian trade, as I have said, is denominated in dollar...

Does my right hon. Friend agree that the banking measures provide an immediate ban? The effect is...

My right hon. Friend is certainly right that it creates an immediate economic shock. That is why ...

The Minister said earlier that all these measures come into force immediately. Why on earth does ...

I do not think the individuals involved will consider it a weak measure; on the contrary, I think...

I want to return to another point and perhaps help the Minister a little bit, because we want to ...

I am grateful to the right hon. Lady for mentioning unexplained wealth orders, because that is an...

I thank Ministers and Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office officials for the pre-briefing...

The Government have to go through a legislative process and so on, but does the shadow Minister s...

I am sure that the Minister will say that we are not naming individuals to give them advance warn...

Does my hon. Friend share my worry and frustration that there has been such a big gap between the...

I completely agree about the need for effectiveness. A point has been made today about the slow p...

What I found a bit disappointing about the Minister’s speech was its tone. We are all on the same...

The hon. Lady makes an important point. The Minister can be assured of our co-operation in gettin...

I am going to pose a question for which I seek an actual answer—an unusual thing in this House. T...

It will clearly be necessary for us to propose and potentially impose measures for quite some tim...

Does the hon. Gentleman accept, in the context of a wider set of points, that there is a signific...

I completely agree with the hon. Gentleman, especially in connection with the measures relating t...

My hon. Friend is right. There is a secondary question that the Minister needs to clear up: if a ...

My right hon. Friend makes a crucial point. My understanding, which the Minister can clarify if n...

I found much to agree with in the comments from the hon. Member for Cardiff South and Penarth (St...

I am very much enjoying the right hon. Gentleman’s contribution, and I thank him for what he said...

The right hon. Lady makes a point that will be made by my hon. Friend the Member for Isle of Wigh...

My right hon. Friend and the right hon. Member for Barking (Dame Margaret Hodge) raise a very imp...

My hon. Friend and I sponsored the lawfare debate four weeks ago, and he played a sterling part—h...

The right hon. Gentleman is making a brilliant speech. Will he give the House his perspective on ...

That is true. We must also face facts on the sophistication of the targets that we are aiming at....

Let me start on a note of consensus. The Scottish National party supports these statutory instrum...

It was Lenin who said that there are some decades when nothing happens and weeks in which decades...

I am delighted by the tone of the debate, because on the Back Benches there is complete agreement...

Did the right hon. Lady find the excuse that was given during the statement yesterday—that the Go...

That is indeed the case. It has been suggested that we could use parliamentary privilege to sanct...

Does my right hon. Friend agree that, in many cases, it is not as though these assets are very mo...

My right hon. Friend is absolutely right. That is why the Government should readily undertake tha...

Never.

I will not read the list of more than 100 names, but I have picked out 10 that demonstrate not on...

My right hon. Friend, if I may call her that, will be able to work out, as a former Chair of the ...

Hear, hear. We all agree. I will send the complete list to the Minister. I ask him and his collea...

It is a privilege to follow the right hon. Member for Barking (Dame Margaret Hodge). I will talk ...

Does the hon. Gentleman not find that it rather sticks in the throat that Mr Abramovich has been ...

The hon. Lady brings me to a point about how oligarchs work. To go back to Ukraine, somebody such...

I commend the hon. Gentleman for his speech today, his past work in the area and his knowledge of...

The right hon. Gentleman makes a really good point. I do not have anything against Ben Elliot; he...

This is not my main point, but I just point out that it is not just Britain; after all, the chair...

I do not want to abuse privilege, but, to put it bluntly, I have been told of law firms that do n...

The hon. Gentleman is outlining a damning case against those who facilitate. Does he accept that ...

I completely agree, and the right hon. Gentleman is completely right. I am going to carry on for ...

Does the hon. Gentleman agree that it is also alarming when companies such as Eurasian Natural Re...

We absolutely should, and the hon. Gentleman makes another really important point. The lawyers go...

I have been listening intently to what the hon. Gentleman has said, but surely there must be some...

There are lots of them; there are too many for me to go into, because I am genuinely trying to wi...

Like everyone who has spoken in this debate, I support these regulations, but I want the Paymaste...

I try to agree on this issue with almost everything the right hon. Gentleman says, but I would pu...

I am grateful for the nuance the hon. Gentleman brings to the debate. Gerasimov was not on the li...

Like my right hon. Friend, I am baffled by the Government’s approach. The Foreign Secretary said ...

My right hon. Friend is absolutely right. We are now seeing a sanctions gap emerge, where the UK ...

One of the reasons the sanctions are milder than perhaps the right hon. Gentleman or any of us wo...

That could well be the case, but if the Paymaster General has told us this afternoon that nothing...

Haven’t we all!

The right hon. Gentleman might have had a similar letter. Mine is many, many pages long and must ...

As I am speaking at a late stage in the debate, much of what needed to be said has already been s...

My right hon. Friend is making an excellent speech. I fully understand that he is separating the ...

I do, and I completely understand what my hon. Friend is saying. The point I am trying to make is...

The right hon. Gentleman is right to make this point. Surely we have to get the balance right, th...

As two former Treasury Ministers, we both know that situation. In these discussions, I strongly u...

My party fully supports this sanctions regime, on which the Foreign Secretary gave us some insigh...

It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for East Antrim (Sammy Wilson). To pick up his p...

Does the hon. Lady think it strange that the Government are reluctant to name the individuals the...

I am so grateful for that intervention, and I absolutely do not understand. I intervened about th...

I will give a brief preamble explaining why I support the sanctions. Then I will make three broad...

My party and the whole House stand with Ukraine. Putin’s attack on Ukraine is an unprovoked, unju...

With the leave of the House, I will close this debate. The last three hours have shown us that th...