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Catherine West Excerpts
Tuesday 25th January 2022

(2 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Vicky Ford Portrait Vicky Ford
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As I said, we are looking at budget allocations for the years ahead now that we have a three-year settlement review from the Treasury. Budget decisions have not yet been made.

Catherine West Portrait Catherine West (Hornsey and Wood Green) (Lab)
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Time and again in this House, the Labour party has raised the issue of the failure to act on the Russia report. The Government have been painfully slow at bringing forward the action that we need to implement its recommendations. With mounting threats of Russian hostility, can the Minister tell the House what discussions she has had with colleagues across Government on the proposed implementation of the counter state threats Bill, the new and refreshed Computer Misuse Act 1990, the reform of Companies House and the register of property ownership, so that London will no longer have the reputation of being the laundromat for the dirty money that comes out of such regimes?

Vicky Ford Portrait Vicky Ford
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Discussions across Government are still continuing.