Speeches by Yang.

“Mr Thomson, what do you see as the highest-risk areas or regions, particularly in terms of circumventing UK sanctions?”

“Ms Davies, I was wondering if you had anything to add on the challenges this might pose for enforcement.”

“I am aware that there has been a timeline for the implementation of public registers of beneficial ownership in those territories. That was meant to be the end of last year. Does this lack of implementation pose any risk in terms of enforcement of the UK’s sanctions?”

“I have one last question on data reporting. Mr Thomson, earlier this morning you said that there was no publication of the number of cases referred to crime enforcement, because the NCA was not willing for you to make that publication. I was wondering if you could go a bit more into what they see as the risks of public…”

“Is the concern that, if the number is small, people might then think, “I can get away with this”, and therefore not report it?”

“The majority of cases you are investigating do not then go on to enforcement. Does that come from cases being reported that are not severe enough or an over-reporting, if you like? What do you think would be ways to reduce that ratio, if possible?”

“Would you say, then, that, for the majority of cases that do not go to further action, that is because of self-reporting or because you have arrived at a case that is not severe or important enough to warrant that, or is it because of a lack of tools to implement the further action?”

“To clarify, is the NCA’s concern, in your understanding, that, if they were to report the number of annual cases passed to law enforcement, the number would be too small to serve as a deterrent?”

“I was wondering if different standards applied to that level of transparency in different cases. For example, the NCA does report the number of suspicious activity reports it receives relating to sanctions. You might consider that that might be seen as too big or too small. It is very difficult to understand how to jud…”

“The information is definitely there. It is just not public.”

“I very much commend the Secretary of State for the youth guarantee. In my constituency, many businesses have invested in the hi-tech industries of the future. However, I speak to young people and their families who are concerned about those young people getting jobs on the first rung of the ladder. This year, there wil…”

“John referred to this perception of a lack of action. There is a lot of action that goes on within the Office that the average viewer of this session might not know about. Mr Thomson, I was wondering if you could describe how you make the decision whether to publicise breaches when they occur.”

“What are the annual numbers for moderate or severe breaches that you do investigate? What about the breaches that do not get to that investigation level?”

“I am frankly astonished at the principle underlying some of the comments made by the shadow Foreign Secretary and some of her Conservative colleagues today. I have been giving assemblies to primary school children across the Earley and Woodley constituency emphasising that British democracy means that nobody is above t…”

“Thousands of families in my constituency have moved into new-build developments in Shinfield, Loddon Park and beyond. But many have found their dreams of home ownership punctured by unfair and opaque property management charges. Can the Deputy Prime Minister reassure my constituents by setting out how the leasehold ref…”

“In the last financial year, the Treasury paid £20 billion or £30 billion to the Bank.”

“Over 5,000 Hong Kong families have settled in Reading over the past few years, including in my constituency, and I have stood alongside Hong Kong activists in peaceful demonstrations here in the UK. The onerous sentencing of pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong will give people a broad reason to fear transnational repr…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Roger. I welcome this opportunity to discuss the ongoing atrocities in Gaza, and I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow West (Patricia Ferguson) for bringing this debate to Westminster Hall. I also thank my constituents who have made it here from Earley and …”

“How confident are you that the ONS can solve this problem? By when do you expect that to begin?”

“To the Governor, we have a situation where the UK has an unusually low participation rate and people are unusually unlikely to participate in the labour force survey. What needs to be done to solve this problem? Who needs to do it? Is the Bank doing any work to solve this problem as well?”