Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Rishi Sunak and Stephen Morgan

Tuesday 7th December 2021 Commons Chamber

[Rishi Sunak]

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. This Government are committed to making sure that work always pays, and that is why universal credit is such an improvement on the previous system—an improvement that the Opposition did not support at all.

[Stephen Morgan (Portsmouth South) (Lab)]

The Minister will be aware that Viktor Fedotov, the secret co-owner of Aquind, has been implicated in a £72 million fraud scheme linked to Putin’s Russia. Can the Minister say what due diligence has been done on the project company and its owners, and if he and ministerial colleagues will protect our national infrastructure from these alleged fraudsters by stopping the disastrous project once and for all?