Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Bill

My Lords, every day’s delay in bringing in these measures costs Ukrainian lives, so these Benches...

My Lords, I remind the House of my interest as a chartered accountant—which I hesitate to do afte...

My Lords, I welcome this Bill and the speed with which it is being brought to us, but I share som...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend the Minister for her clear opening to this debate on this very ...

My Lords, a considered assessment of this Bill requires some reflection as to why measures to thw...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow a speech of such forceful clarity as we have just heard from...

My Lords, for over 50 years, it has always been a privilege and a pleasure to speak either before...

My Lords, I very much agree with the contents of virtually all the speeches we have heard so far....

My Lords, I am not sure I can follow that. I should declare an interest as a practising barrister...

My Lords, the Bill we are debating today is long, long overdue. Part of this delay resulted from ...

My Lords, as we know, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has triggered the fast-tracking of this Bill t...

My Lords, I was the BBC’s Moscow producer for “Newsnight”. I have been back many times to make te...

My Lords, the scenes in Ukraine that the world has observed in our newspapers and on our televisi...

I am afraid that the noble Lord was late to the start of the debate.

8.04 pm

My Lords, I will set out the context for the Bill and look at some of the bigger ways forward, wh...

Will I?

I am sure she will.

Unoriginally, I begin by noting that a year is a long time in politics....

My Lords, although it does not say so on the Bill, it was perfectly clear before we even started,...

My Lords, I draw attention to my entry in the register of interests. This is important and welcom...

My Lords, as a brief declaration I remind noble Lords that I introduced a debate on relations wit...

My Lords, I am going to say something that I do not think I have ever said before: I have really ...

My Lords, it was a privilege yesterday to listen to the brave and compelling words of President Z...

My Lords, there have been many excellent speeches this evening from people who have pointed out d...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Carlile of Berriew, mentioned Alexander Litvinenko, and I should l...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Macdonald. I think it is the first time...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to wind up for Her Majesty’s Opposition on this incredibly important d...

I start by thanking all noble Lords for their constructive engagement in advance of and during to...

Will the Minister give way?

I may be about to address some of the noble Lord’s points about Companies House reform so let me ...

Given the wide level of expertise evident in this debate, will the Minister commit to pre-legisla...

Let me come back to the noble Lord on that. I certainly commit to full scrutiny of the Bill when ...

About that: with many other Bills, the Government go out for consultation for six or eight months...

I cannot win on this one: if I give too much time to pre-legislative scrutiny, for consultation e...

I am sorry to intervene, but perhaps the Minister could explain why, if there is such an effectiv...

This is what we are attempting to address in this legislation. We are trying to make the system a...

My Lords, the noble Lord has contradicted himself. He said that there was a robust system in plac...

I said there was a robust system in place under the money laundering regulations in response to t...

The Minister has not answered the question about why the register is updated annually, not 14 day...

I will come to that in a second. The new register is designed to allow investigators to get behin...

My Lords, I apologise. Would the Minister consider this as a subject for the upcoming Commonwealt...

I am sure we will want to engage with all other parts of the world, not just the English-speaking...