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date	06/12/2017
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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 Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 28 November 2017 to Question 115266 on companies: ownership, when (a) Ministers and (b) officials of his Department last held discussions with representatives of the Governments of (i) Anguilla, (ii) Turks and Caicos Islands and (iii) Montserrat on the establishment of a central register or similar arrangement; and what the outcome was of those discussions.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	117951
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2017 answer text <p>At the Joint Ministerial Council on 28-29 November, the Minister for the Overseas Territories (OTs), Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, and leaders of the OTs welcomed progress made by those OTs with financial services centres in implementing the arrangements set out in the Exchange of Notes on exchange of beneficial ownership information. They committed, where not already achieved, to expedite work to ensure that the new systems were fully operational and populated.</p><p>​Foreign and Commonwealth Office officials also recently discussed progress on the establishment of beneficial ownership systems with representatives of the Governments of Anguilla, the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) and Montserrat. We are finalising with the Government of Anguilla a Memorandum of Understanding on the terms for the provision of UK support for the establishment of their beneficial ownership system. TCI Representatives have confirmed that their Financial Services Commission is at the testing stage for its new central register.</p><p>Representatives of Montserrat have confirmed that a Bill requiring legal entities to hold beneficial ownership information and to submit it for inclusion in Montserrat's existing public central register will have its first reading in Montserrat's Legislative Assembly on 19 December 2017. The target date for the addition of beneficial ownership information to the existing register is 1 April 2018.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 14/12/2017 17:31:05 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

802265

registered interest
date	06/12/2017
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Montserrat: Companies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 28 November 2017 to Question 115266 on companies: ownership, when he expects the Legislative Assembly of Montserrat to (a) introduce and (b) pass legislation to implement a central register of beneficial ownership.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	117952
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2017 answer text <p>​A Bill requiring legal entities to hold beneficial ownership information and to submit it for inclusion in Montserrat's existing public central register will have its first reading in Montserrat's Legislative Assembly on 19 December. It will have its second and third reading at the next sitting of the Legislative Assembly, which is scheduled to sit on 23 January 2018. The Bill is expected to come into law after that date.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 14/12/2017 17:25:31 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

802266

registered interest
date	06/12/2017
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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 Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 28 to Question 115266 on companies: ownership, how many times UK law enforcement authorities have accessed beneficial ownership information held on companies incorporated in British Overseas Territories since 2016.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	117953
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2017 answer text <p>​The Foreign and Commonwealth Office does not have access to operational details of requests made by UK law enforcement authorities for beneficial ownership information.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 14/12/2017 17:27:26 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

802373

registered interest
date	06/12/2017
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Horn of Africa: Migration
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the effectiveness of the Khartoum Process on tackling migration within the Horn of Africa.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	118060
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2017 answer text <p>​The Khartoum Process has enhanced cooperation between the EU and African partners in tackling the challenges of illegal migration in the Horn of Africa. It continues to make progress under the Valetta Action Plan in combatting people smuggling and trafficking, and in bolstering regional protection for refugees. The UK will remain engaged under Italy's upcoming chairmanship and beyond.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 14/12/2017 16:22:38 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew