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786316

	registered interest
	date	07/11/2017
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Companies: Ownership
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many times the Serious Fraud Office has requested beneficial ownership information from registers of beneficial ownership from the UK's Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies since 1 July 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	112101
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>The SFO does request information from the UK's Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies as well as other overseas partners in relation to its ongoing investigations. However, for operational reasons the SFO does not provide details of such requests as it could prejudice the conduct of those investigations.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 20/11/2017 10:00:37 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

786321

	registered interest
	date	07/11/2017
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Companies: Ownership
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will set a deadline for the UK Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies to make public their central registers of beneficial ownership.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	112180
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2017 answer text <p>The UK Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies are separate jurisdictions with their own democratically elected governments. The UK Government works closely with the Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies on transparency issues. Our priority is the implementation of the new bilateral arrangements concluded with them in 2016. Under these arrangements, the Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies have committed to establish, where they have not already done so, central registers of beneficial ownership information or similarly effective systems and to give UK law enforcement and tax authorities near real-time access to beneficial ownership information on corporate and legal entities incorporated in their jurisdictions. Nevertheless, it remains the Government’s ambition for public registers to become the global standard. If this happens, we would expect the Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies to follow suit.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 16/11/2017 16:08:11 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore previous answer version 21822 answering member constituency Ashford answering member printed Damian Green answering member 76
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

786331

	registered interest
	date	07/11/2017
	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, if he will publish correspondence between his Department and the Government of Bermuda on its policy on beneficial ownership of companies.
	tabling member constituency	Hayes and Harlington
	tabling member printed	John McDonnell
	uin	112082
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2017 answer text <p>​The Government concluded an Exchange of Notes with the Government of Bermuda in 2016, setting out arrangements for the exchange of beneficial ownership information between Bermuda and the UK. Under the arrangement, UK law enforcement authorities have access, on request, to information on the ultimate owners of companies incorporated in Bermuda within 24 hours or within one hour for the most urgent cases. The Exchange of Notes and key correspondence with the Government of Bermuda on the issue of beneficial ownership are publicly available on the gov.uk website.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 17/11/2017 13:43:37 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
	tabling member	178 label Biography information for John McDonnell

786324

	registered interest
	date	07/11/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Companies: Ownership
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many times HM Revenue and Customs has requested beneficial ownership information from registers of beneficial ownership from the UK's Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies since 1 July 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	112100
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2017 answer text <p>The UK has around 150 tax treaties and tax information exchange agreements with other countries around the world, including with all of the Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories.</p><p>HMRC is the body responsible for exchanging tax information under international treaties. HMRC routinely exchanges information which is relevant to tax investigations, including information about the beneficial ownership of companies and property.</p><p>Last year, HMRC made 1,096 requests of other tax administrations, and received 2,015 requests.</p><p>HMRC also automatically receives financial account information about UK taxpayers under the Common Reporting Standard. This year we received information from almost 50 jurisdictions and this will rise to over 100 jurisdictions next year.</p><p>Tax treaties and other exchange of information instruments under which exchanges take place have strict confidentiality requirements. This means that the UK cannot provide a breakdown of numbers of requests in relation to particular jurisdictions.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 16/11/2017 14:51:53 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West