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1005751

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	date	12/11/2018
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	EU Competitiveness Council
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what issues the UK Government plans to raise at the forthcoming meeting of the EU Competitiveness Council on 29 November 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Don Valley
	tabling member printed	Caroline Flint
	uin	190351
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2018 answer text <p>The agenda for the EU Competitiveness Council (internal market and industry day) taking place on 29 November 2018 was agreed on 9 November by EU Ambassadors. The main items will be legislative discussions on platform-to-business relations, the Single Market Programme and the general safety of vehicles and debates on industrial policy and the future of the single market. A Written Ministerial Statement will be made shortly providing further details.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 19/11/2018 15:46:05 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
	tabling member	389 label Biography information for Caroline Flint

1005752

	registered interest
	date	12/11/2018
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Multinational Companies: Tax Avoidance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether the Government would support another country putting public country by country reporting on the agenda for the EU Competitiveness Council meeting on 29 November 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Don Valley
	tabling member printed	Caroline Flint
	uin	190352
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2018 answer text <p>The UK has led international action to enhance tax transparency. This has included initiating the international work on country by country reporting during its G8 Presidency in 2013, and being the first country to commit to implement the OECD model for country by country reporting with legislation in the 2015 Finance Act.</p><p> </p><p>The issue of public country by country reporting is not on the agenda for the EU Competitiveness Council (internal market and industry day) taking place on 29 November 2018, as agreed by EU Ambassadors. The UK has no plans to raise the issue at this meeting, although we would have no objection to another Member State raising it.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government believes a multilateral approach to public country by country reporting would help ensure effective implementation.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst grouped question UIN 190353 question first answered 19/11/2018 15:32:12 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
	tabling member	389 label Biography information for Caroline Flint

1005753

	registered interest
	date	12/11/2018
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Multinational Companies: Tax Avoidance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what plans the UK Government has to raise the issue of public country by country reporting at the EU Competitiveness Council meeting on 29 November 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Don Valley
	tabling member printed	Caroline Flint
	uin	190353
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2018 answer text <p>The UK has led international action to enhance tax transparency. This has included initiating the international work on country by country reporting during its G8 Presidency in 2013, and being the first country to commit to implement the OECD model for country by country reporting with legislation in the 2015 Finance Act.</p><p> </p><p>The issue of public country by country reporting is not on the agenda for the EU Competitiveness Council (internal market and industry day) taking place on 29 November 2018, as agreed by EU Ambassadors. The UK has no plans to raise the issue at this meeting, although we would have no objection to another Member State raising it.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government believes a multilateral approach to public country by country reporting would help ensure effective implementation.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst grouped question UIN 190352 question first answered 19/11/2018 15:32:12 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
	tabling member	389 label Biography information for Caroline Flint