Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle
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Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GP)
My Lords, in responding to the Front-Benchers, the noble Baroness the Leader of the House said, regarding dirty money, “I accept there is more to do”. She may be aware of the report yesterday from the Center for American Progress, a think tank known for being close to the Biden Administration, suggesting what to do if Russia invades. In its recommendations, it mentions, at paragraph 1.2, the formation of a
“U.S.-U.K. counter-kleptocracy working group.”
It explains this by saying that the US should propose the working group
“in part to prod stronger action from the U.K. government.”
Will the UK Government be waiting for that prod, or will they take stronger action immediately, not in the long-term future?
Baroness Evans of Bowes Park (Con)
In answer to questions at the beginning, I set out a whole range of things that we have done, and are doing, to tackle money-laundering and economic crime. We will continue with that work.