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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Thu 27 Oct 2022
Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Fourth sitting)

"Q I want to pursue that point for a moment. In the interests of good governance, would it not make sense to strengthen some of the obligations on directors to include, for example, a duty to take steps to prevent corruption in their organisations? We have similar measures on …..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Thu 27 Oct 2022
Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Fourth sitting)

"Q Catherine, I think I speak for all of us in saluting you for the courage you have shown in revealing what you have revealed. How important was it to President Putin that people around him—his friends and allies—were able to move money so easily out of Russia through …..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Thu 27 Oct 2022
Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Fourth sitting)

"Q Let me just crystallise this. Are you saying that allies of President Putin used UK corporate structures to move money out of Russia?

Catherine Belton: Yes, I am, of course. Obviously, that has an agenda, especially when the UK Parliament’s own Intelligence and Security Committee has pointed out …..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Thu 27 Oct 2022
Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Fourth sitting)

"Q I do not know whether you can see it, but the Bill is called the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill. How credible do you think corporate transparency in this country will be if we do not amend the Bill to include the protection of journalists like you, …..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Thu 27 Oct 2022
Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Fourth sitting)

"Q Jason, you are a political scientist. Why are we in this position where we have such weakness? Why has our political system failed to address these weaknesses for so long?

Professor Jason Sharman: This is probably a typical social science answer, but there are quite a few reasons …..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Thu 27 Oct 2022
Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Fourth sitting)

"Q I am grateful for those guard rails, Ms Bardell. At the moment, the Bill has a lacuna, which is any protections around safeguarding politicians from dirty money. We are not covered by suspicious activity reporting, for example. Some would argue that the £1.2 billion that has flown into …..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Thu 27 Oct 2022
Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Fourth sitting)

"Q So it could be part of the solution.

Professor Jason Sharman: Yes...."
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Written Question
United Russia
Thursday 27th October 2022

Asked by: Liam Byrne (Labour - Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of proscribing the United Party of Russia under the Terrorism Act 2000.

Answered by Tom Tugendhat

Whilst the Government keeps the list of proscribed organisations under review, we do not routinely comment on whether an organisation is or is not under consideration for proscription.

The UK and our allies condemn the Russian Government’s unprovoked and premeditated invasion of Ukraine. We have considerable powers to sanction the Russian Government, which we have used with our allies to significant effect. The Government has implemented the strongest set of economic sanctions ever to degrade Russia’s war.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 07 Jul 2022
Economic Crime: Law Enforcement

"I thank the hon. Member for Thirsk and Malton (Kevin Hollinrake) and my right hon. Friend the Member for Barking (Dame Margaret Hodge) for bringing this debate to the House and for all their work in bringing together the superb set of proposals in the economic crime manifesto. It is …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 07 Jul 2022
Economic Crime: Law Enforcement

"Exactly. My hon. Friend is absolutely right.

I will quickly run through five parts of the economic manifesto that have to be at the core of the next economic crime Bill. One of the virtues of having this debate today, at this moment of great flux in our politics, is …..."
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