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419727

registered interest
date	05/10/2015
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Small Businesses
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many meetings (1) the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, (2) ministers within the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, and (3) civil servants at the level of private secretary or above in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, have had with companies employing fewer than 50 employees since May.
tabling member printed	Baroness Kramer
uin	HL2430
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2015 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate costs.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 12/10/2015 11:07:09 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	1557 label Biography information for Baroness Kramer

419454

registered interest
date	17/09/2015
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Syria: Counter-terrorism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, with reference to the Prime Minister's Oral Statement of 7 September 2015, Official Report, column 30, whether the legal advice provided on the targeted killing of British citizens by remote control drone in Syria covers future targeted killings of UK citizens or if new and separate advice will have to be sought for any future such killings.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	10542
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2015 answer text <p>The Prime Minister gave a detailed statement on 7 September 2015 in which he informed the House that I was consulted on the action and was clear that there would be a legal basis for action in international law. By long-standing convention, reflected in the Cabinet Manual, the content of the Law Officers’ advice is not disclosed outside government without the consent of the Law Officers. As I explained in my oral evidence to the Justice Select Committee on the 15<sup>th</sup> September (<a href="http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/committeeevidence.svc/evidencedocument/justice-committee/the-work-of-the-attorney-general/oral/21698.html" target="_blank">HC 409</a>), the convention should be adhered to in this case.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright grouped question UIN 10450 10451 10466 question first answered 12/10/2015 16:19:04 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

419456

registered interest
date	17/09/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Money Laundering
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the number of shell companies being used to invest corrupt money in the UK in each of the last 10 years; and what steps he plans to take to tighten related money laundering regulations.
tabling member constituency	West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
tabling member printed	Stuart Blair Donaldson
uin	10587
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2015 answer text <p>The opaque nature of such structures means that we are unable to produce an accurate estimate of how many are used to invest corrupt money in the UK. That is one reason why the Prime Minister put beneficial ownership transparency at the heart of the UK’s G8 Presidency in 2013. The Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act received Royal Assent earlier this year and established a public register of company beneficial ownership information. This register will be operational from June 2016. The Act also abolished bearer shares and introduced a requirement for all company directors to be natural persons.</p><p>In Europe, we worked hard during the negotiation of the 4<sup>th</sup> Anti-Money Laundering Directive to encourage European partners to match our level of ambition to ensure that criminal activity would not simply be displaced. The Directive was formally adopted in June 2015 and requires all Member States to implement central registers of company beneficial ownership will access for competent authorities, obliged entities and those with a legitimate interest. Member states have until June 2017 to transpose these requirements.</p><p>The Government is continuing to take strong action to make the UK a hostile environment for corrupt money and to make it increasingly difficult for criminals to abuse corporate structures. We will shortly publish the UK’s first National Risk Assessment of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing and have committed to publishing an Anti-Money Laundering Action Plan to address those issues which are highlighted by the National Risk Assessment.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 12/10/2015 13:44:54 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	4377 label Biography information for Stuart Blair Donaldson

419457

registered interest
date	17/09/2015
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Land: Ownership
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, when he expects the Land Registry to publish data on which foreign countries own which land property titles in England and Wales.
tabling member constituency	West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
tabling member printed	Stuart Blair Donaldson
uin	10588
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2015 answer text <p>Land Registry has no plans to publish data on which foreign countries hold land and property titles in England and Wales.</p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 12/10/2015 14:00:00 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4377 label Biography information for Stuart Blair Donaldson

419458

registered interest
date	17/09/2015
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Foreign Companies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps the Government has taken to make property ownership by foreign companies more transparent.
tabling member constituency	West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
tabling member printed	Stuart Blair Donaldson
uin	10590
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2015 answer text <p>The Prime Minister stated during a speech made in Singapore on 28 July that he will consult on the best way forward to extending what we ask of UK companies to foreign companies.</p><p>He has also asked Land Registry from this autumn to publish data on which foreign companies own which land and property titles in England and Wales.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 12/10/2015 14:01:27 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4377 label Biography information for Stuart Blair Donaldson

419459

registered interest
date	17/09/2015
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Companies: Ownership
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps the Government is taking to reform company law to require the disclosure of beneficial controlling interests of offshore companies.
tabling member constituency	West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
tabling member printed	Stuart Blair Donaldson
uin	10589
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2015 answer text <p>From next year companies registered in the UK will be required to hold a register of people with significant influence or control over them. This information will be filed with Companies House, which will maintain a central, publicly accessible register.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 12/10/2015 12:24:30 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4377 label Biography information for Stuart Blair Donaldson

419463

registered interest
date	17/09/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Iraq Committee of Inquiry
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 15 September 2015 to Question 9949, what the (a) total number of working hours Government lawyers have spent advising recipients of Salmon Letters in the Iraq Inquiry and (b) cost to the public purse of that advice is.
tabling member constituency	Haltemprice and Howden
tabling member printed	Mr David Davis
uin	10583
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2015 answer text <p>Government will account for its costs at the end of the Inquiry.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 12/10/2015 16:47:12 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	373 label Biography information for Sir David Davis

419464

registered interest
date	17/09/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Teenage Pregnancy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many and what proportion of (a) teenage, (b) 15 year old, (c) 16 year old and (d) 17 year old girls (i) became pregnant and (ii) gave birth in each local authority area in the most recent three-year period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Burton
tabling member printed	Andrew Griffiths
uin	10660
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2015 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p> answering member constituency Reading East answering member printed Mr Rob Wilson attachment 1 file name PQ figures_final.xlsx title Excel Attachment for Member 2 file name 10660 FINAL.pdf title UKSA Letter for Member question first answered 12/10/2015 16:44:58 answering member 1556 label Biography information for Mr Rob Wilson
tabling member	3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths

419466

registered interest
date	17/09/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Freezing of Assets: Syria
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assets of (a) President Assad and (b) the Syrian government have been frozen in the UK; and what the value is of those assets.
tabling member constituency	Walsall South
tabling member printed	Valerie Vaz
uin	10552
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2015 answer text <p>In view of the situation in Syria, Council Regulation (EU) No 36/2012 of 18 January 2012 imposed an asset freeze against listed Syrian individuals and entities. The EU Regulation, which has direct effect in the UK, requires that all funds and economic resources belonging to, owned, held or controlled by listed persons are frozen.</p><p>Those listed under this regime include natural and legal persons, entities and bodies who have been identified as being responsible for the violent repression against the civilian population in Syria, persons and entities benefiting from or supporting the regime, and natural or legal persons associated with them. These persons and entities include, but are not limited to, President Assad and several members and agencies of the Syrian government.</p><p>The approximate aggregate value of funds frozen in UK jurisdiction under EU Regulation 36/2012 is £151,080,000 (based on an annual audit in September 2014). These funds continue to belong to the individuals and entities listed under the Regulation and are not seized or otherwise held by HM Government.</p><p>The Regulation states that HM Treasury can use this information only for the purpose for which it was provided. In order to comply with this requirement, and to comply with UK data protection law, the figure is provided on an aggregate basis so as not to disclose data relating to funds held by particular individuals or entities.</p><p>HM Treasury publishes the names of those subject to EU financial sanctions on the Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets in the UK, which can be found on the gov.uk website.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 12/10/2015 13:42:04 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	4076 label Biography information for Valerie Vaz

419468

registered interest
date	17/09/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Opencast Mining: Tax Yields
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much has accrued to the public purse in tax receipts from the extraction of coal from open cast mines over the period 1995 to 2015.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Alan Brown
uin	10607
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2015 answer text <p>There are no taxes levied specifically on open cast coal mining. This activity is subject to the UK's general taxation regimes such as VAT and Corporation Tax. However it is not possible to say how much revenue these taxes raise from open cast mines, as the number of companies involved is below the Government’s threshold for disclosing tax liabilities.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 12/10/2015 14:05:17 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown