"I thank everyone for taking part in the debate and I thank you, Mr Efford, for chairing.
Question put and agreed to.
Resolved,
That this House has considered the Second Report of the Foreign Affairs Committee, The cost of complacency: illicit finance and the war in Ukraine, HC 168, and …..." Bob Seely - View Speech
That this House has considered the Second Report of the Foreign Affairs Committee, The cost of complacency: illicit finance and the war in Ukraine, HC 168, and the Government response, HC 688.
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