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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 17 Oct 2022
Sanctions (EU Exit) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2022

"My Lords, I point out that I am speaking as a winding-up speaker, just in case there is anyone else who is interested in speaking from the Back Benches.

The Minister has explained that this statutory instrument brings into the sanctions orbit both crypto asset exchanges and custodian wallet providers. …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 17 Oct 2022
Sanctions (EU Exit) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2022

"I thank the Minister for the responses he has given me so far, but I raised the issue of British Overseas Territories and cited the example of Binance, one of the largest crypto exchanges, which is based in the Cayman Islands, and how these SIs would impact that. If he …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 03 Mar 2022
Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2022

"My Lords, I raise again with the Government the issue of cryptocurrencies. Effectively, Russians cannot now transfer roubles into dollars, euros and pounds sterling but they can transfer into cryptocurrency. The Minister will know that the Ukrainian Minister of Finance on Monday called on all the decentralised finance—the DeFi exchanges—to …..."
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Speech in Grand Committee - Thu 03 Feb 2022
Autocrats, Kleptocrats and Populists

"My Lords, the crisis in Ukraine has finally put on the front pages an inconvenient truth largely, if not deliberately, ignored by the Government. The safe haven and money laundering which the UK provides to kleptocrats and oligarchs sustains, enables and rewards pretty much any and every corrupt and autocratic …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 10 Nov 2020
Jonathan Taylor: SBM Offshore

"My Lords, I am shocked by the line in the Government’s response that says we have no evidence that this arrest is linked to Mr Taylor’s whistleblowing on corruption. Employers retaliate against whistleblowers, not on the grounds of their whistleblowing, but by asserting spurious, contrived and false accusations. By the …..."
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Written Question
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Senior Civil Servants
Monday 26th October 2020

Asked by: Baroness Kramer (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many BAME civil servants there are at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office at (1) SCS1, (2) SCS2, (3) SCS3, and (4) SCS4, grade.

Answered by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon

As of 30 June 2020, 7.1% of SCS1 and 8.3% of SCS2 civil servants in the FCDO self-identified as BAME. In order to comply with the GDPR and in order to protect the anonymity of individual members of staff, unfortunately we cannot provide percentages for SCS3 and SCS4 civil servants as the actual numbers for staff self-identifying as BAME are fewer than five.

Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 17 Oct 2019
South Africa: Money Laundering and Corruption

"My Lords, I think the whole House would agree that the best way to prevent corruption is transparency, particularly of the various organisations that can be enablers. On that point, could the Minister tell us what progress has been made on public registers of beneficial owners in the overseas territories …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 01 May 2019
Lord Mayor’s Show: Taiwan

"My Lords, I had the privilege of leading a trade mission to Taiwan and it was evident that the route into the Chinese market for much of our financial services industry was with a Taiwanese partner or intermediary. Can the Minister make the City much more aware of the importance …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 24 Jan 2018
Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Bill [HL]

"My Lords, I will speak exceedingly briefly because so much has been said. In fact, it has all been said, but it has not been said by me—and I refer of course to the thanks. I thank in particular the Minister, who took the view from the beginning that, if …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 24 Jan 2018
Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Bill [HL]

"My Lords, I want to make a short intervention on this issue. Your Lordships will remember that the amendment, moved with great energy and skill by the noble Baroness, Lady Stern, to extend public registers to overseas territories—by order, if necessary—was defeated in this House by a narrow margin. It …..."
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