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Delegated Legislation – in the House of Commons at 6:49 pm on 11 February 2020.

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That the Andrey Lugovoy and Dmitri Kovtun Freezing Order 2020 (S.I., 2020, No. 36), dated 17 January 2020, a copy of which was laid before this House on 17 January, be approved.—(Mike Freer.)

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