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794293

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date	23/11/2017
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	Companies: Ownership
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 13 November 2017 to Question 111541, on companies: ownership what access the Government has to registers of beneficial ownership in each British Overseas Territory.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	115266
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2017 answer text <p>​Central registers of beneficial ownership information or similarly effective arrangements are in place in Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands and Gibraltar.</p><p>Under bilateral arrangements concluded in 2016 with Overseas Territories with financial centres, UK law enforcement authorities have the automatic right of access to beneficial ownership information held on companies incorporated in those Territories within 24 hours or one hour in urgent cases.</p><p>Anguilla and the Turks and Caicos Islands have not yet established a central register or similarly effective arrangement. We continue to monitor progress and to offer support to both these Territories.</p><p>Montserrat has committed to establish a public central register and is expected to introduce new legislation to implement its central register shortly.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 28/11/2017 17:07:27 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

794302

registered interest
date	23/11/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Marriage Certificates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many officials in her Departmental are working on (a) administrative, (c) technical and (c) legislative tasks relating proposals to include a mother's name and details on marriage certificates.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	115275
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2017 answer text <p>The Home Office has a number of officials who are working, or have worked, on proposals to include mothers’ names on marriage certificates. This work forms just part of these officials' wider responsibilities.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 28/11/2017 17:22:11 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

794303

registered interest
date	23/11/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Marriage Certificates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, (a) how many and (b) which computer systems will need to be altered to allow mothers names and details to be given on marriage certificates.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	115276
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2017 answer text <p>All marriage registrations in England and Wales are recorded on a computer system that is used by registration officers administrating the registration service. Changes would need to be made to this system to allow mothers names and details to be recorded. This can only be achieved once the necessary legislation is in place.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 28/11/2017 17:32:38 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

794304

registered interest
date	23/11/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Marriage Certificates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which acts of Parliament need to be amended in order to allow mothers' names and details to be given on marriage certificates.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	115277
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2017 answer text <p>Any change to the content of the marriage entry to include mothers’ names would ideally also bring forward reform to how marriages are registered to introduce efficiencies and create a more secure system for the maintenance of marriage records.</p><p> </p><p>To introduce such reform would require changes to primary legislation, in particular the Marriage Act 1949, and associated regulations. We continue to look for opportunities to introduce the legislative change required.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 28/11/2017 17:27:58 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran