Speeches by Morello.

“The NCA is pretty experienced at dealing with the financial services sector. Is there any evidence that HMRC is fulfilling its duty? On Tom’s point about learning opportunities, what we are talking about there is somebody being hung out to dry and made an example of. Is HMRC doing that?”

“The Minister makes valid points about the contribution that the Government have made. However, the RFU has lost £30 million and overseen three premiership clubs going bust, so I question whether the Government are doing enough to scrutinise the governing bodies of the game in England.”

“I think the decision would run counter to the aim of increasing engagement in the sport. The hon. Member will know that the Rugby Football Union receives £28 million of taxpayers’ money to not only deliver the women’s rugby world cup but improve engagement in the women’s game. However, is he aware that the joint ventur…”

“You have raised an interesting question. Originally, when the League of Nations started to institutionalise sanctions, Woodrow Wilson said that it would remove the need for force. You have raised the question of what the purpose of sanctions is. Is there any evidence that sanctions are actually an effective way of diss…”

“I want to circle back to a topic that we touched on earlier: guidance to the private sector.”

“I want to return to what we were talking about earlier on the private sector, understanding the guidance and the circumnavigation of sanctions more broadly. There are some interesting numbers. Prior to the war in Ukraine breaking out, UK car exports to Azerbaijan were valued at about £58 million; since the war broke ou…”

“Those are country-level issues. What I am trying to understand relates to British manufacturers exporting to third countries with the clear understanding that there is a clear pathway into Russia—because there is absolutely no way that the demand for heavy machinery and drones parts in Kyrgyzstan has shot up 1,100% ove…”

“Also, if we want countries to take foreign nationals in Britain back, we have to accept that we have to take British nationals in foreign countries back. That is just the quid pro quo.”

“I will confess that before being elected to this place, I spent 10 years in renewable energy finance. It is a common claim from certain activists and newspapers that we should put solar on commercial buildings. I do not disagree with that. The problem is the economics of it do not stand up from a finance perspective. U…”

“On that point, we have had discussions with some of those Members who had the opportunity to go to Jordan fairly recently. The invitation of the Jordanian Government was around the fact that the rules of the future Syrian society are going to be based by the people who are there, yet obviously an enormous number of peo…”

“John, I was interested on the drug side, but I know you are. We will piggyback.”

“Mr Collis, you have talked about the Assad regime being a criminal enterprise. Syria was obviously also a narco state, with something like 80% or 90% of the world’s Captagon production happening inside Syria. I am interested to understand to what extent HTS is dealing with that in the areas that it controls. Is it deal…”

“Just to follow up on that, because I am interested in this money issue, I have seen figures of anywhere between $5 billion and $55 billion in terms of the size of the Captagon market. Dr Khatib, if you have a new Syria right now that does not have a source of income, is there any risk that we see the new regime, crimin…”

“There has arguably been an autonomous Kurdish region on its border for the entirety of this conflict, operating with a US security guarantee, effectively. There must be some scope for that to exist alongside Turkey.”

“I am interested in extrapolating a little bit further on this, because we are going to talk about Islamic State and foreign fighters, but HTS has also had foreign fighters within its ranks. Some of those are Uighurs from the East Turkestan Islamic Movement and elsewhere. While HTS, as it morphs into the state of Syria,…”

“Extrapolating from that in terms of the UK’s responsibility in this area and what the drivers are for saying no, is our rationale an outlier when we are saying no, or is it the same logic that other countries apply?”

“The issue here goes back to the point about what the threshold is for proving your ability to evidence that they have committed a crime, because it goes back to this political will issue. If you bring somebody back who has just spent the better part of a decade being radicalised in a Syrian prison, whether they went in…”

“You could just strip them of their citizenship and pretend this is now somebody else’s problem somewhere else in the world.”

“On that point, we have had discussions with some of those Members who had the opportunity to go to Jordan fairly recently. The invitation of the Jordanian Government was around the fact that the rules of the future Syrian society are going to be based by the people who are there, yet obviously an enormous number of peo…”

“John, I was interested on the drug side, but I know you are. We will piggyback.”