Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Bill

I have been in the Chamber since my right hon. Friend started speaking. She might be aware that o...

My right hon. Friend has made an incredibly important point and used a good example to show how t...

There seems to be bit of a gap between the Home Secretary’s rhetoric and the reality. Last week, ...

I have been speaking for a while and I would have hoped that the hon. Gentleman was listening to ...

I support the measures in this Bill, but it all hinges on enforcement. Can my right hon. Friend e...

We cannot compare London with certain other countries and economies, and there are well-known bar...

I understand that the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has put for...

With this Bill, we are speaking very clearly about known individuals, known oligarchs. This legis...

I will make progress. I have taken plenty of interventions, and I am conscious of the protected t...

Will the Secretary of State give way?

Not just yet.

As I have said, further measures are coming shortly in other legislation and ...

On the vexed issue of trusts, whether they be domestic or, more likely, foreign, if they are of a...

My hon. Friend makes an important and significant point. That is exactly the work in which the tr...

Will the Secretary of State give way?

I am not going to give way, because there is protected time and the hon. Gentleman will get to sp...

I welcome the Bill before us today, at a time when rocket attacks are continuing, when homes, com...

Does my right hon. Friend agree that, had the Government got a move on with this years ago, we wo...

I agree with my hon. Friend that action should have been taken much earlier to address that, whic...

Is my right hon. Friend as surprised and worried as I am that the Office of Financial Sanctions I...

My hon. Friend makes an important point. Unless we have the ability to use the powers we have and...

The enforcement issue is really important. For instance, following the invasion and annexation of...

I must say that the information my hon. Friend provides is deeply disturbing. There is a huge res...

At the last election but one, a former intern of mine, now a very wealthy Hollywood lawyer, sent ...

My hon. Friend makes an important point. For example, there is discussion as part of this Bill ab...

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I will give way to the Home Secretary to clarify.

I think the right hon. Lady did not hear what I said earlier. I said that I can confirm that we a...

That would be very helpful. But we also need to know when this visa application centre will be se...

Are not the Government and the Home Secretary absolutely out of step with the British public on t...

I think the public want to see us doing our bit, and that is not what is happening. What people a...

I appreciate that this is now becoming a much wider debate, but on Friday we launched an extended...

I think I need to come in here, just for a minute. At the end of this debate I expect the Ministe...

I am grateful, Mr Speaker, because there are some very serious questions.

The Home Secretar...

As of an hour ago, there was a poster up in Calais that says simply, “No visas delivered in Calai...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. If we in this House are so confused and cannot follow this ch...

On the topic of confusion, is the right hon. Lady as concerned as I am about the fact that the Ho...

Clearly we need updated figures, but my understanding is that 50 visas is the figure issued by th...

On a point of order, Mr Speaker. We have been waiting for the economic crime Bill for many years....

I make the decisions, and I think it is all right. What I would say, in fairness, is that the Hom...

Thank you. Mr Speaker. The concern for the House is that the Home Secretary has provided informat...

The question I was hoping to put to the Home Secretary was very simply whether she could illustra...

My hon. Friend is right that we need clarity about how the legislation will work in practice and ...

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I will take one final intervention.

Does my right hon. Friend agree that it is deeply concerning that the now Lord Lebedev, despite w...

Order. We cannot name a Member of the other place, unless it is on a substantive motion, so that ...

Given the seriousness of this matter and the seriousness of the allegations that security advice ...

I start off by saying that I expect Members to take around five minutes.

4.38 pm

Given the nature of the debate, I will try to make my simple points in three minutes. [Interrupti...

I want my right hon. Friend to extend his speech slightly. Does he agree—I hope my right hon. Fri...

I am pretty sure that they will hear that warning when they look back at this debate.

I do ...

I call SNP spokesperson Alison Thewliss.

4.43 pm

SNP Members are delighted to see this well-overdue Bill. We have called for action on these issue...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right about where the money was stolen from, and many of the kleptoc...

My right hon. Friend is absolutely correct to point that out. This money has been around the worl...

Does the hon. Lady agree that full transparency at Companies House of who owns companies is in ev...

That is a fair point, and I absolutely agree. I will speak in the sanctions part of my speech abo...

Does the hon. Lady share my concern that there are still 11,000 companies at Companies House that...

I absolutely agree. I was going to speak about Scottish limited partnerships later but will jump ...

I can tell the hon. Lady that there are concerns across the House on this issue, as she can see f...

I very much agree with the hon. Member and acknowledge the strength of cross-party support in the...

Order. I am going to introduce a five-minute time limit. However, I am sure that right hon. and h...

Thank you very much, Madam Deputy Speaker. This is an important Bill, and it is an exceptional Bi...

I will try to keep my remarks short. Like others in the House, I welcome the Bill, but it should ...

Is the right hon. Lady as concerned as I am that some estimates put the cost to this country of e...

No, of course not; I completely concur. The latest figure I have seen for the cost of economic cr...

It is a pleasure to speak in this debate and to follow the right hon. Member for Barking (Dame Ma...

My hon. Friend makes a good point: this is not just for this crisis. He will have seen the excell...

I agree with my hon. Friend, but that matter is beyond my expertise or interest; my interest is i...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Amber Valley (Nigel Mills), and I associate myself...

The hon. Lady is making an excellent speech. Does she agree that actions speak louder than words?...

I thank the hon. Lady for her intervention, and she is right. I do not say this in any other spir...

At bleeding last! It is here. We have been waiting for years. Alleluia! It has finally arrived.