Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 07 Jul 2022
Economic Crime: Law Enforcement
"The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. The joy of the Minister’s position must surely be that Members of this House have done the heavy lifting for him. Between us, we have sketched out a pretty comprehensive catalogue of measures for the Bill: we have not quite put the clause numbers …..."Liam Byrne - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 06 Jun 2022
National Security Bill
"I apologise to the Home Secretary, who is not in her place, for missing the first 11 minutes of her opening speech.
As I think the Minister will have spotted, there is wide consensus across the House about many of the provisions in this Bill that is matched only by …..."Liam Byrne - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 06 Jun 2022
National Security Bill
"The right hon. Member puts his finger on precisely the lesson that we should draw from allies such as the United States. Today, the United States has a battery of eight types of controls and measures that are regulating and controlling the export of—or, frankly, efforts to steal—technology and data …..."Liam Byrne - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 06 Jun 2022
National Security Bill
"I leave that to the judgment of the House in the debates that we have, but we must make the framework coherent, because, frankly, it is not coherent today.
My second point is about the defence of our democracy. The Chair of the Intelligence and Security Committee, the right hon. …..."Liam Byrne - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 06 Jun 2022
National Security Bill
"Perhaps no one in this House has done more than the hon. Gentleman to expose the hybrid warfare and divide-and-rule tactics of Russia, but we are wide open to them, not least because a person can give unlimited amounts of money to political parties if they are laundered through the …..."Liam Byrne - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 06 Jun 2022
National Security Bill
"I am grateful to the Minister for giving way, and appreciate the way in which he is stepping through these points. Is an offence created by the provider of a social media platform if it enables someone to spread harmful messages? Does it count as a proxy, in effect?..."Liam Byrne - View Speech
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Written Question
Tuesday 8th March 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 she will (a) list the spending programmes her Department devolves for administration to local government in England and other local spending bodies and (b) specify the value for each programme for every year for which budgets are agreed.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
The Home Office does not record the information sought to the level of granularity required.
Identifying individual spending programmes which are devolved to local government or other local spending bodies can only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 07 Mar 2022
Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Bill
"Does the hon. Lady share my concern that there are still 11,000 companies at Companies House that do not have a person of significant control registered, yet there have been only 119 prosecutions? Surely we have to transform the regulatory power of Companies House to get rid of this nonsense...."Liam Byrne - View Speech
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Written Question
Thursday 3rd March 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 she will set out (a) the number of FTE's and (b) the resources devoted to the Kleptocracy cell in the National Crime Agency.
Answered by Damian Hinds
The National Crime Agency welcomes the announcement on the Combatting Kleptocracy Cell to focus on corrupt elites laundering their assets within the UK.
They have already surged additional officers to support existing efforts and will move at pace to enhance the unit further to drive forwards what are inevitably complex and lengthy operations.
Written Question
Tuesday 9th November 2021
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, which Minister approved the catalogue of data collection fields on the UK Passenger Locator Form.
Answered by Kevin Foster
The Passenger Locator Form data capture field requirements are agreed by officials across government, predominately in health and transport departments to ensure alignment with Ministerial decisions on travel requirements and contact tracing strategy.
The Passenger Locator Form is a system for all four nations, so data fields are also included to align with requirements set by the devolved Administrations for Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.