Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency

Lord Faulks Excerpts

Committee stage
Thursday 27th April 2023 Grand Committee

I am under no illusions that these discussions will continue—I say to the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett, that even Ministers get that. However, given those reasons, I respectfully ask the noble Lord to withdraw his amendment.

[Lord Faulks (Non-Afl)]

Before the noble Lord sits down, during the passage of the first economic crime Bill, when the question of sanctions was discussed, much reference was made to the very lengthy Explanatory Notes which accompanied that Bill—the longest I have ever seen—particularly as regards the human rights implications of depriving people of their assets in the sort of way that the noble Lord, Lord Alton, envisages in his amendment, in particular A1P1 of the European convention and various other rights. Is it part of the Government’s position that the sort of suggestions made in this amendment are in fact stymied or may be frustrated by the provisions of the European convention and the Human Rights Act?

[Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con)]

The noble Lord has strayed into an area with which I am not familiar. I shall have to write to him.