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Grand Committee
Police: Restoring Public Confidence - Wed 03 May 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Lexden (CON - Life peer) If you expect me to sort out cultural issues in the Met and get rid of the people who should not be employed - Speech Link
2: Lord Browne of Ladyton (LAB - Life peer) In fact, given that we now know that fraud accounts for 41% of crime on the person and that only 1% of - Speech Link
3: Lord Hunt of Wirral (CON - Life peer) normal accountability by allowing him to set up a so-called independent scrutiny panel—a novel and self-serving - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Online Safety Bill
Committee stage: Part 1 - Tue 02 May 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Russell of Liverpool (CB - Excepted Hereditary) If searches were conducted for eating disorders or self-harm, the avatars were quickly able to access - Speech Link
2: Lord Knight of Weymouth (LAB - Life peer) In this case, it is a bit more like regulating for self-driving cars; in that context, you will design - Speech Link
3: Lord Knight of Weymouth (LAB - Life peer) While advertising is broadly out of scope of the Bill, apart from in respect of fraud, it is significant - Speech Link
4: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (CON - Life peer) to design and operate their services to reduce the risk of users encountering content amounting to a fraud - Speech Link
5: Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick (LAB - Life peer) pornographic website could be used as an argument to override a duty to ensure that age verification is employed - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Online Safety Bill
Committee stage: Part 2 - Thu 27 Apr 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Stevenson of Balmacara (LAB - Life peer) This is a largely self-contained series of clauses. - Speech Link
2: Lord Moylan (CON - Life peer) get off the ground if it had to meet that standard, because the number of people who would have to be employed - Speech Link
3: Lord Stevenson of Balmacara (LAB - Life peer) fraud in particular—and how that is going to be brought into the Bill. - Speech Link
4: None that discussion as well as the question from the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson, on financial scams and fraud - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Online Safety Bill
Committee stage: Part 1 - Tue 25 Apr 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: None Self-regulation has failed to protect children online over the past 15 years. - Speech Link
2: Lord Moylan (CON - Life peer) There are moderators at Wikipedia—I do not know whether they are employed—who review what has been done - Speech Link
3: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (CON - Life peer) content—for example, pornographic search services or commercial search services that could facilitate online fraud - Speech Link
4: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) world that self-regulate. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill
Committee stage - Thu 20 Apr 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: None money laundering, recover criminal assets, combat kleptocracy, drive down sanctions evasion and cut fraud - Speech Link
2: Lord Coaker (LAB - Life peer) Lots of fraud and economic crime takes place but is not seen as a priority by the state—irrespective - Speech Link
3: Lord Agnew of Oulton (CON - Life peer) My Lords, with very deep reluctance, I will withdraw it, but I want to leave on the record that the self-proclaimed - Speech Link
4: Lord Faulks (Non-affiliated - Life peer) It emphasised the importance of trusts as a potential vehicle for fraud. - Speech Link
5: None However, we have the power to ensure that the principles we are discussing today will be well employed - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill
Committee stage - Tue 18 Apr 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Leigh of Hurley (CON - Life peer) it will not be found; so not tagged means it is not complete or tagged wrongly means that it is not self-consistent - Speech Link
2: None the need to establish a credible supervisory framework for ACSPs before we allow such services to be employed - Speech Link
3: Lord Coaker (LAB - Life peer) Given the concerns raised in this Committee about the loose language that the Government have employed - Speech Link
4: Lord Browne of Ladyton (LAB - Life peer) Economic crime—fraud is part of it, as 41% of crime against a person in our country now is fraud—is having - Speech Link
5: Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted (LDEM - Life peer) I was a member of the fraud committee. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Finance (No. 2) Bill
2nd reading - Wed 29 Mar 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Stephen Timms (LAB - East Ham) saving for later life, published last September, highlighted the collapse of pension saving among the self-employed - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Unpaid Work Trials - Wed 29 Mar 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Stewart Malcolm McDonald (SNP - Glasgow South) It is fraud; it is morally fraudulent and must almost certainly be legally fraudulent—except it is not - Speech Link
2: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) If we had more workers employed by the state to enforce the national minimum wage, as the Government - Speech Link
3: Justin Madders (LAB - Ellesmere Port and Neston) Does the Minister agree that the threat of being taken to a tribunal for an unpaid trial shift is self-evidently - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill
Committee stage - Mon 27 Mar 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Leigh of Hurley (CON - Life peer) That is needed to ensure that none of the data is self-contradictory and that it matches other data in - Speech Link
2: Lord Agnew of Oulton (CON - Life peer) financial word is that of Danske Bank in Denmark, which was the largest ever anti-money laundering fraud - Speech Link
3: Lord Coaker (LAB - Life peer) There is the Serious Fraud Office; there is the City of London Police; there are local police forces; - Speech Link
4: Lord Johnson of Lainston (CON - Life peer) legislation should be sufficient to ensure that real addresses are given and other protections are employed - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Whistleblowing Awareness Week - Thu 23 Mar 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Mary Robinson (CON - Cheadle) people and organisations who work hard to do the right thing and shine a light on abuse, corruption, fraud - Speech Link
2: Maggie Throup (CON - Erewash) Friend makes the good point that the existing legislation covers only people who are employed by organisations - Speech Link
3: Mary Robinson (CON - Cheadle) It is estimated that fraud and corruption costs the UK over £190 billion a year. - Speech Link
4: Martin Docherty-Hughes (SNP - West Dunbartonshire) I have to say, I am glad Frances did.The National Crime Agency’s annual fraud indicator estimates fraud - Speech Link
5: Kevin Hollinrake (CON - Thirsk and Malton) range of employment relationships, such as agency workers; individuals under -taking work experience; self-employed - Speech Link