My Hon Friend the Minister for Industry and Economic Security (Nusrat Ghani MP) has today made the following statement.

I am making a statement to correct the record in relation to the Supplementary Estimate for UK Export Finance.

The final paragraph of the statement I made on 13 September 2023 should have...

My Hon Friend the Minister for Industry and Economic Security (Nusrat Ghani MP) has today made the following statement.

I am making a statement to correct the record in relation to the Supplementary Estimate for UK Export Finance.

The final paragraph of the statement I made on 13 September 2023 should have...

I am making a statement to correct the record in relation to the Supplementary Estimate for UK Export Finance.

The final paragraph of the statement I made on 13 September 2023 should have read as follows:

“Parliamentary approval for additional resource of £51,000 for this new service will be sought in a...

I am making a statement to correct the record in relation to the Supplementary Estimate for UK Export Finance.

The final paragraph of the statement I made on 13 September 2023 should have read as follows:

“Parliamentary approval for additional resource of £51,000 for this new service will be sought in a...

Further to the statement by my Hon. Friend, the Minister for International Trade last week, I have today laid the accompanying Departmental Minute before Parliament describing a contingent liability arising from the launch of a Shipbuilding Credit Guarantee Scheme (SCGS).

The SCGS is a finance instrument which will provide guarantees to...

Further to the statement by my Hon. Friend, the Minister for International Trade last week, I have today laid the accompanying Departmental Minute before Parliament describing a contingent liability arising from the launch of a Shipbuilding Credit Guarantee Scheme (SCGS).

The SCGS is a finance instrument which will provide guarantees to...

Consideration of Lords message. Motion to agree with Lords amendments 23B and 23C, considered with further Lords amendments, Government motions to disagree and Government motions to insist. Lords amendments 23B and 23C agreed to on question. Lords amendments 151B and 151C, motion to disagree and insist on amendment 151A, agreed to on division (276 to 210). Lords amendments 161B, motion to disagree and insist on amendment 161A in lie. Resolved. Motion that a Committee be appointed to draw up Reasons to be assigned to the Lords for disagreeing to their amendments. Agreed to on question. Reasons to be reported and communicated to the Lords.

Consideration of Lords message. Motion to agree with Lords amendments 23B and 23C, considered with further Lords amendments, Government motions to disagree and Government motions to insist. Lords amendments 23B and 23C agreed to on question. Lords amendments 151B and 151C, motion to disagree and insist on amendment 151A, agreed...

My Hon Friend the Minister for Industry and Economic Security (Nusrat Ghani MP) has today made the following statement.

Further to the statement by my Hon. Friend, the Minister for International Trade last week, I have today laid the accompanying Departmental Minute before Parliament describing a contingent liability arising from the...

My Hon Friend the Minister for Industry and Economic Security (Nusrat Ghani MP) has today made the following statement.

Further to the statement by my Hon. Friend, the Minister for International Trade last week, I have today laid the accompanying Departmental Minute before Parliament describing a contingent liability arising from the...

It is always a pleasure to speak with right hon. and hon. Members on the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill, which they will know is close to my heart and contains many vital measures for which I have long campaigned. The Bill will give us the powers we need...

It is always a pleasure to speak with right hon. and hon. Members on the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill, which they will know is close to my heart and contains many vital measures for which I have long campaigned. The Bill will give us the powers we need...

Where do those figures come from?

Where do those figures come from?

We used very similar analysis to that used for the failure to prevent bribery and failure to prevent tax evasion offences. We have used a common methodology. I have not seen any figures that contradict our figures here, but in my view—having run a business and dealt with some of...

We used very similar analysis to that used for the failure to prevent bribery and failure to prevent tax evasion offences. We have used a common methodology. I have not seen any figures that contradict our figures here, but in my view—having run a business and dealt with some of...

It is a great honour to speak for the Opposition on behalf of myself and my hon. Friend the Member for Aberavon (Stephen Kinnock). I pay tribute to my predecessor, my hon. Friend the Member for Feltham and Heston (Seema Malhotra). I am also grateful to my right hon. Friends...

It is a great honour to speak for the Opposition on behalf of myself and my hon. Friend the Member for Aberavon (Stephen Kinnock). I pay tribute to my predecessor, my hon. Friend the Member for Feltham and Heston (Seema Malhotra). I am also grateful to my right hon. Friends...

This is an important Bill and there is much good in it, but I am afraid that a number of areas require further attention. Now is not the time for discursive speeches, but I regret to say that notwithstanding the good in the Bill, the Government have fallen into error...

This is an important Bill and there is much good in it, but I am afraid that a number of areas require further attention. Now is not the time for discursive speeches, but I regret to say that notwithstanding the good in the Bill, the Government have fallen into error...

I strongly very much with what the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Sir Robert Neill) said. Let us just agree with the Lords. Let us get on with this. Let us do this legislation, and do it properly.

Let me say first that it is important for us to have...

I strongly very much with what the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Sir Robert Neill) said. Let us just agree with the Lords. Let us get on with this. Let us do this legislation, and do it properly.

Let me say first that it is important for us to have...

I shall be brief. The hon. Member for Glasgow Central (Alison Thewliss) repeated her phrase of last week—and, indeed, we have passed this way again. I will resist the temptation to be too biblical today; I will simply reiterate to the my hon. Friend the Minister the points that I...

I shall be brief. The hon. Member for Glasgow Central (Alison Thewliss) repeated her phrase of last week—and, indeed, we have passed this way again. I will resist the temptation to be too biblical today; I will simply reiterate to the my hon. Friend the Minister the points that I...

I have listened carefully to my right hon. and learned Friend’s points. He said a few seconds ago that this would relate only to fraud that benefits the body concerned. Paragraph 1(b) of Lords amendment 151 also covers the body or an associate within that body providing services, so this...

I have listened carefully to my right hon. and learned Friend’s points. He said a few seconds ago that this would relate only to fraud that benefits the body concerned. Paragraph 1(b) of Lords amendment 151 also covers the body or an associate within that body providing services, so this...