Beneficial Ownership Registers: Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies Debate
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Karen Bradley
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Beneficial Ownership Registers: Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies
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Dame Margaret Hodge
I have enormous respect and time for the hon. Member, but I have an opinion from a renowned KC that we sought at that time—I will come to it later—which contradicts entirely his point and says that we do have the constitutional right to legislate.
Karen Bradley (Staffordshire Moorlands) (Con)
I want to comment not on the substance of what the right hon. Lady is talking about but merely on the procedural aspects. She will know that the Procedure Committee is looking at the impact of legislation in this place on devolved legislatures, the overseas territories and the Crown dependencies, and I am interested in her comments and look forward to her speech, but does she agree that we should try to find a way for the voice of the overseas territories to be heard when we legislate in this place if there are implications for them?