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“So at the moment, parties are receiving crypto donations, or are able to do so. Have you received any suspicious activity reports from agencies around crypto being received by political candidates, individuals, or parties?”

“The commission’s guidance, which you mentioned, is going to come shortly. Can you say any more on timelines? In particular, are we expecting that it will be published before the local elections?”

“Presumably from the FCA.”

“On this point, you mentioned earlier in your testimony that you receive suspicious activity reports.”

“Thank you.”

“I have a final question. On 7 October 2025, I wrote to you in my capacity as chair of the all-party parliamentary group on anti-corruption and responsible tax, on a separate issue: reports in The Guardian about Wafic Saïd, a Canadian citizen who is resident in Monaco and ineligible to vote in the UK. Reports were made …”

“You talked at the start of your testimony about increasing the number of staff at the commission. When it comes to cryptocurrency, one of my concerns is around the capabilities that the commission might have. You will need somebody who understands how cryptocurrency works, and you will need somebody who has an understa…”

“But there is a risk there, isn’t there? The parties that receive donations in crypto currency have to swap them into fiat currency, as you say, but these instruments are very easy to manipulate in terms of how volatile their value can be. If parties are not able to, or do not, swap the donor cryptocurrency into fiat cu…”

“I want to ask a couple more questions on crypto. You have touched on wallets, and you have touched on ultimate beneficial information on the source of donors and whether that is permissible. Can you say what your assessment is of how far back through crypto transactions political parties would have to go to determine w…”

“Sorry—the three that already accept crypto donations are Reform UK, the Homeland party and the Other party. Do you have the wallet addresses? Are you able to oversee those at the moment, or is that going to come in due course?”

“I agree with that sentiment, and we have exchanged correspondence to that effect previously. I want to go back to crypto. The intention is that there will be guidance that outlines to the political parties how far up the blockchain, in essence, they need to go to determine whether the source of the donation is permissi…”

“My hon. Friend is quite right about the spheres of influence that Russia seeks to exert across central and eastern Europe. Ivanishvili could be sanctioned under any number of our regimes—Magnitsky, global anti-corruption or even the Russian sanctions regime given his reported links to the Kremlin and his blatant kowtow…”

“I thank the right hon. Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Sir Iain Duncan Smith) for securing this important debate and I am pleased to see the Minister in his place. He has already heard plenty from colleagues in the Chamber on sanctions, and I hope that today’s debate will provide further food for thought. Effe…”

“For years, solicitor Andrew Milne has been bullying, threatening and harassing leaseholders, including my Horwich constituents, into buying freeholds off him at massively inflated prices—sometimes as much as £25,000—yet the Solicitors Regulation Authority has done nothing to stop his outrageous behaviour, which has cau…”

“The hon. Member makes a valid point. We see that on high streets in my constituency time and time again, all too often, in the context of vape shops. As an aside, we all know that gambling today is no longer confined to a once-a-week trip to the bookies; it is on people’s phones, in their pockets and available 24 hours…”

“I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Brent East (Dawn Butler) on securing this debate and on her campaigning on this issue over the years. That includes this week’s letter to the Prime Minister, which had nearly 300 signatories and which she co-ordinated. She was quite right to say that our high streets are bei…”

“Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. Transparency is the name of the game here, so will the Minister confirm whether his Department has looked at publishing comprehensive data on assets frozen within UK jurisdictions, broken down by asset class, including assets held by individuals, state- owned enterprises and states them…”

“I want to pay tribute to my constituent, Alex Davies, who sadly passed away last November, the day after his 50th birthday, two years after his glioblastoma diagnosis. He is survived by his wife Emma and their two daughters. Alex volunteered to have his brain tissue frozen after two surgeries, for ongoing research at t…”

“In your testimony earlier, Minister, you touched on individuals, in this place and elsewhere in UK politics, who propagate disinformation from other hostile actors, including hostile states. One of my areas of concern is the very small financial incentive that can often be used to propagate that. We saw that with the h…”

“Five.”