Debate: Corporate Transparency and Economic Crime - 28th Feb 2022 - Janet Daby extracts

Corporate Transparency and Economic Crime

Janet Daby Excerpts
Monday 28th February 2022

(2 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Kwasi Kwarteng Portrait Kwasi Kwarteng
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My hon. Friend will appreciate that the legislation proposed will set up a range of criminal offences. As is always the case with criminal offences, we will absolutely make sure that the people who are enforcing those penalties are properly resourced. I am very keen to work with him to make sure that we get this right.

Janet Daby Portrait Janet Daby (Lewisham East) (Lab)
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The Secretary of State has taken a similar question to this one, but it is very specific. Will he ask his party chair to conduct a review into the political donations made to the Conservative party and the links that these donors may have to the Kremlin?

Kwasi Kwarteng Portrait Kwasi Kwarteng
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I have answered this question before and I say, once again, that not everybody of Russian heritage giving money to any political party is an oligarch. I appreciate that the hon. Lady is not saying this explicitly, but the implication is that they are, and I reject the premise of the question.