I have been listening carefully to the hon. Lady’s speech, and she is making an understandable point. My recollection about the phrase “economic wellbeing” is that it appears, for example, as an exemption to the right to privacy in article 8(2) in the European convention on human rights. What we should be looking for is provisions that match the rights acquired under article 1 of the first protocol—namely, rights to property—and clearly, there need to be qualifications on that in circumstances such as these. She is right to probe the Government so that we get language that mirrors, at the very least, convention rights. Does she not agree with that reasonable proposition?
Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Robert Buckland
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 7 March 2022.
It occurred during Committee of the Whole House (HC) on Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Bill.
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