Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Jamie Stone and Lord Hammond of Runnymede

Tuesday 17th April 2018 Commons Chamber

[Mr Philip Hammond]

My hon. Friend tempts me down a complex route. I will look at that again; I am familiar with the issue from my time as Foreign Secretary. The decision that Ministers have to make around the freezing of assets is a quasi-judicial one, and it has to be made very carefully in the light of the specific facts. There are great complexities in Libya, where in some cases competing authorities are claiming ownership of assets.

[Jamie Stone (Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross) (LD)]

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