Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill

The right hon. and learned Member is making a brilliant speech, and the proposals he is stewardin...

I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman. Jonathan Hall, the independent reviewer of terrorism l...

Has my right hon. and learned Friend also considered the Bribery Act, where a similar set of proc...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Of course, he was a Minister in the Ministry of Justice when ...

I want to add to the excellent speech that the right hon. and learned Gentleman is making and to ...

The right hon. Lady leads me to the thrust of my argument on new clause 5, which is the identific...

I congratulate my right hon. and learned Friend on making a powerful speech in favour of his new ...

I was going to spare the blushes of the Minister for Security, my right hon. Friend the Member fo...

Will my right hon. and learned Friend give way?

Of course.

What I am enormously enjoying in this Session is the way in which Bills are being picked up and p...

Well, my right hon. Friend must speak for himself. I will tell the House a story: I remember when...

My right hon. and learned Friend is being very generous with his time. May I say very gently that...

Well, I am trying to be the diplomat and the reasonable interlocutor here. My hon. Friend is play...

I am incredibly grateful to the right hon. and learned Gentleman for his generosity in giving way...

Gallons of rum.

Yes. It is unusual for unity to break out on both sides of the House and on the Front and Back Be...

I think that there are two things: time and capacity. I do not criticise officials. I have never ...

I draw the House’s attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests.

I...

That is a fair question. What I seek is to tease out from the Government the juxtaposition with t...

I have enormous sympathy with my right hon. and learned Friend, who is doing the House a service ...

I am always grateful to my right hon. and learned Friend; I greatly enjoyed our time working toge...

I am sorry to interrupt the right hon. and learned Gentleman’s excellent speech again, but does h...

If not now, when? I entirely agree.

I had not quite finished outlining the Law Commission’s...

I call the SNP spokesperson.

It is a pleasure to follow the expertise of the right hon. and learned Member for South Swindon (...

These are very important points. Given their importance, should the Minister not put down his pho...

One Minister is on his phone and the other—the hon. Member for Thirsk and Malton—is sitting at th...

It is not the first time I have heard this speech.

It is not, and it certainly will not be the last. It could be if the Minister accepted the amendm...

I am going to be brief and speak simply to new clauses 1 and 2, which stand in the name of the ri...

The right hon. Gentleman makes a valid point. I agree that the creation of the scheme was under t...

There is no doubt that the more recent you are, the more salient the case. Frankly, I can remembe...

I shall be very brief, because I took a lot of time in the House yesterday. I strongly support ma...

If the right hon. Lady can come up with a way to seize assets and use them for the purposes we ha...

This is not our idea. It comes from a recent seminar we held with lawyers who support the Royal U...

Tagged.

I thank the Minister. I am having a senior moment.

The SFO had clearly prepared the case ba...

I understand the right hon. Lady’s point about the cost to the police and other authorities of fa...

Indeed, and we considered an amendment in yesterday’s debate to address that specific issue, so t...

I rise to speak to new clause 7, which is in my name, and the names of Members across the House. ...

I rise to speak to the Liberal Democrat new clauses tabled in my name, with a particular focus on...

The hon. Lady is making some excellent points about the golden visas. Does she find the lack of c...

I thank the hon. Lady for her point, which is well made. The thing is that the Government were cu...

I rise to speak to new clause 23, in my name and those of the right hon. Member for Barking (Dame...

I have now to announce the result of today’s deferred Divisions.

On the draft Environmental...

It is a pleasure to speak to new clauses 1 and 2 in my name and those of many others, and it is a...

The right hon. Member is making his point powerfully. Does he not agree that they are laughing at...

The hon. Lady is absolutely right. Here we are, licensing a warlord to draw down funds and move t...

I commend my right hon. Friend for the work he has done consistently over a long period on this i...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. I said earlier that London is now the preferred strike point ...

It is a great pleasure to follow my right hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Hodge Hill (Liam...

I call the Minister.

Minister!

My apologies, Madam Deputy Speaker. For some reason I was under the impression that the hon. Memb...

No, no!

Oh, are you ducking out? Very well.

I will be back for Third Reading.

It is always a joy to hear from the hon. Gentleman.

Order. I think I should explain, for the benefit of Hansard, that the shadow Minister will be com...

I thought that we were to have the joy and the privilege of hearing from the hon. Member for Aber...

I am extremely grateful for what my right hon. Friend has said, but may I gently press him on the...

My right hon. and learned Friend is certainly more learned than me, and I will certainly be liste...

I am grateful for the assurance that an amendment will be introduced in another place, but may I ...

The right hon. Lady knows very well that I would find it impossible not to listen to her. I look ...

I have indeed had a meeting with the Under-Secretary to discuss this. There is a long way to go o...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that and to the Under-Secretary for having had those conversa...

I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time.

I will briefly thank a few people ...

I thank the Minister for his positive response to the amendments tabled by my right hon. and lear...

I thank my hon. Friend the Chair of the Justice Committee. As he knows, this is an area of great ...

Lucky Minister. I call the shadow Minister.

5.55 pm

Like the Minister, I am keen to thank colleagues who have done so much and made so many valued co...

Order. Mr Kinnock, you are going really wide of the mark on Third Reading. Please could you focus...

Thank you very much, Mr Deputy Speaker. I was just about to make the point that the Home Secretar...

I thank everybody who has contributed to the Bill. It has been a cross-party and worthwhile effor...

Happy Burns Night, everyone.

Question put and agreed to.

Bill accordingly read the Th...