Sanctions

Debate between Michael Ellis and Robert Jenrick

Tuesday 1st March 2022 Commons Chamber

[Michael Ellis]

These powers will have a maximum penalty of up to 10 years’ imprisonment, so that is a “bite” if they are breached.

[Robert Jenrick (Newark) (Con)]

It seems that the legal test required to sanction an individual is too high, because the Departments responsible are clearly struggling to amass sufficient evidence to meet that test—evidence such that they feel will be able withstand judicial review or legal challenges by the individuals concerned, who understandably will put together a serious legal team to challenge them. Anyone would do that and that is their legal right. What can this House do, through legislation, to assist the Minister and the Government in making that legal bar easier for them to reach? That is the challenge that Members on both sides of the House are raising today.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Michael Ellis and Robert Jenrick

Wednesday 21st January 2015 Commons Chamber

[Robert Jenrick (Newark) (Con)]

First they sold our gold reserves at a record low and then they tried to freeze our energy prices at a record high. Does not this latest display of economic illiteracy confirm that only this Government can prevent us, to be blunt—

[Michael Ellis (Northampton North) (Con)]

James Blunt.