Extract from Opposition
days debate on Papers Relating to the Home Secretary
(Normanton, Pontefract and
Castleford) (Lab):...The Labour party has set out a whole series
of policies, both on what needs to be done to get neighbourhood
police back on the beat—I am afraid that the hon. Gentleman’s
party has cut 6,000 neighbourhood police from our streets over
the last five years—and with the measures to set out
a National Crime
Agency unit to take on the criminal gangs who,
unfortunately, the Conservative party has allowed to proliferate
and set up a multimillion-pound criminal industry in the
channel...
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Extracts from committee
stage (Commons) of the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency
Bill
(Birmingham, Hodge Hill)
(Lab): It is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Ms
Elliott. When the Minister winds up the debate on the clause,
will he say a little more about some of the information that the
registrar may be seeking, and in particular whether she is able
to solicit information from people seeking to file accounts, and
so on, that has been requested by other agencies? All kinds of
information is sometimes beyond the purview of, for example,
the National Crime
Agency and sometimes the registrar, rather than a
police agency, making the first approach may be a more
intelligent way to get the information needed for an
investigation. It would be helpful if the Minister clarified
whether Companies House can act in concert with other law
enforcement agencies to gather information that is needed to help
to bring prosecutions...
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Business, Energy
and Industrial Strategy ():...A couple of Members
referred to the Russian sanctions regime. In the Russia
(Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) (No. 13) Regulations 2022, we
broadened the designation criteria to include specified immediate
family members and those with links to Russian state-owned
businesses. There are, of course, things like the combating
kleptocracy cell at the National Crime
Agency...
