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This Bill is an opportunity for the UK to show global leadership by aligning our enforcement outcomes with the purpose of our sanctions—protecting the vulnerable. We cannot continue to allow millions of pounds in criminal assets to vanish into the general state coffers while victims of heinous crimes suffer in silence. It is time to make criminal assets work for justice. These amendments reflect a growing cross-party consensus on the need to modernise our laws against digital and coercive harm. They align with proposals advocated in the Commons debates, where there was a significant concern regarding the state’s ability to use the proceeds of crime to support victims of international law breaches and sanctions violations. By supporting this amendment, as well as Amendments 417 and 419, we could ensure that the UK remains at the forefront of global efforts to ensure that those who profit from atrocity and corruption are made to fund the recovery of those they have harmed.