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	date	20/11/2015
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	British Overseas Territories: Companies
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what discussions she has had with HM Treasury Ministers on the implementation by UK Overseas Territories of public registers of beneficial ownership.
	tabling member constituency	Wythenshawe and Sale East
	tabling member printed	Mike Kane
	uin	17124
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2015 answer text <p>The UK continues to lead the way on beneficial ownership disclosure and to encourage others to do the same. We are having discussions at both Ministerial and official level with the Overseas Territories to emphasise the importance of this agenda. Any system should meet the following criteria: UK and domestic law enforcement and tax authorities must be able to access company beneficial ownership information without restriction, subject to relevant safeguards; these competent authorities should be able to quickly identify all companies that a particular beneficial owner has a stake in, without needing to submit multiple and repeated requests; and companies or their beneficial owners must not be alerted to the fact that an investigation is under way.</p><br /> answering member constituency New Forest West answering member printed Mr Desmond Swayne grouped question UIN 17123 17126 question first answered 26/11/2015 16:04:28 answering member 55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne
	tabling member	4316 label Biography information for Mike Kane

431403

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2015
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	British Overseas Territories: Companies
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment she has made of the potential benefits to developing countries of the implementation of public registers of beneficial ownership by UK Overseas Territories with financial centres.
	tabling member constituency	Wythenshawe and Sale East
	tabling member printed	Mike Kane
	uin	17126
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2015 answer text <p>The UK continues to lead the way on beneficial ownership disclosure and to encourage others to do the same. We are having discussions at both Ministerial and official level with the Overseas Territories to emphasise the importance of this agenda. Any system should meet the following criteria: UK and domestic law enforcement and tax authorities must be able to access company beneficial ownership information without restriction, subject to relevant safeguards; these competent authorities should be able to quickly identify all companies that a particular beneficial owner has a stake in, without needing to submit multiple and repeated requests; and companies or their beneficial owners must not be alerted to the fact that an investigation is under way.</p><br /> answering member constituency New Forest West answering member printed Mr Desmond Swayne grouped question UIN 17123 17124 question first answered 26/11/2015 16:04:28 answering member 55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne
	tabling member	4316 label Biography information for Mike Kane