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Lords Chamber
Criminal Finances Bill
2nd reading (Hansard): House of Lords - Thu 09 Mar 2017
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Rosser (LAB - Life peer) first request from then Prime Minister to our overseas territories to consider public registers, only Montserrat - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted (LDEM - Life peer) Companies should already have measures in place to prevent crimes done in their name, so for good companies - Speech Link
3: Baroness Hamwee (LDEM - Life peer) Let us acknowledge that Montserrat has committed itself to introducing a register, though we do not know - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Criminal Finances Bill
3rd reading: House of Commons - Tue 21 Feb 2017
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Pickles (CON - Life peer) All we are doing is putting British companies at peculiar risk.” That has not been the case. - Speech Link
2: Lord Garnier (CON - Life peer) That was fine in the Victorian era, when most companies had one or two directors. - Speech Link
3: Caroline Flint (LAB - Don Valley) More than three years on, just one overseas territory, Montserrat, has committed to a public register - Speech Link
4: Caroline Flint (LAB - Don Valley) capital punishment for the crime of murder in Anguilla, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Montserrat - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Commonwealth Development Corporation Bill
2nd reading (Hansard): House of Lords - Thu 09 Feb 2017
Department for International Development

Mentions:
1: Lord St John of Bletso (CB - Excepted Hereditary) CDC has played an incredibly important role in poverty reduction, working with these private sector companies - Speech Link
2: Lord Bruce of Bennachie (LDEM - Life peer) and going back to some of the traditions of the early days of the CDC when it invested directly in companies - Speech Link
3: Lord Shutt of Greetland (LDEM - Life peer) would be but a pinprick for the CDC but could be highly significant for dependent territories such as Montserrat - Speech Link
4: Baroness Sheehan (LDEM - Life peer) The Prime Minister cannot on the one hand promise a crackdown on companies’ use of tax havens and at - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Criminal Finances Bill (Sixth sitting)
Committee Debate: 6th sitting: House of Commons - Tue 22 Nov 2016
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Peter Dowd (LAB - Bootle) Companies are already subject to criminal law for all the additional offences listed in the amendment - Speech Link
2: Tristram Hunt (LAB - Stoke-on-Trent Central) Is there a statistical account of whether any companies have fallen foul of the measure? - Speech Link
3: Rupa Huq (IND - Ealing Central and Acton) April 2014, they were asked again to do so in a letter from the former Prime Minister, but only one, Montserrat - Speech Link
4: Rupa Huq (IND - Ealing Central and Acton) of murder in the Caribbean territories of Anguilla, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Montserrat - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Companies: Overseas Territories Registration - Wed 20 Apr 2016
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LDEM - Life peer) Territories Joint Ministerial Council about moves towards greater transparency of beneficial ownership for companies - Speech Link
2: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LDEM - Life peer) Substantial properties in the UK, including in London, are owned through shell companies by dubious men - Speech Link
3: Lord Rooker (LAB - Life peer) Gibraltar and Montserrat are opening up their registers to the rest of the EU, so why can we not go a - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Finance (No. 2) Bill
Carry-over motion: House of Commons - Mon 11 Apr 2016
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Caroline Flint (LAB - Don Valley) When the Government said that bankers should pay tax on their bonuses as well as on their wages, companies - Speech Link
2: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) will still pay significantly more than most companies. - Speech Link
3: Lord Mann (Non-affiliated - Life peer) the Cayman Islands, the British Virgin Islands, Bermuda, Anguilla, the Turks and Caicos Islands and Montserrat - Speech Link
4: Damian Hinds (CON - East Hampshire) This Bill goes even further to ensure that all companies and individuals pay their fair share. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Overseas Territories Joint Ministerial Council - Thu 03 Dec 2015
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Collins of Highbury (LAB - Life peer) reported that, in the tax year 2013-14, there were 11,000 property purchases in the UK using tax-haven companies - Speech Link
2: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LDEM - Life peer) Prime Minister intended to establish publicly accessible central registers for beneficial ownership of companies - Speech Link
3: Baroness Anelay of St Johns (CON - Life peer) Montserrat will implement a central register with the information publicly available—though, I recognise - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Overseas Territories Joint Ministerial Council - Thu 03 Dec 2015
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Mark Durkan (SDLP - Foyle) As I understand it, only Montserrat has agreed to the standards that are sought. - Speech Link
2: Catherine West (LAB - Hornsey and Wood Green) Member for Foyle (Mark Durkan) mentioned Montserrat in particular, which should be commended for introducing - Speech Link
3: James Duddridge (CON - Rochford and Southend East) In relation to Montserrat, I do not know what discussions the hon. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill - Tue 02 Dec 2014
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Mitchell (LAB - Life peer) It is endemic that big companies put the squeeze on small companies for no other reason than that they - Speech Link
2: Lord Hunt of Chesterton (LAB - Life peer) For large companies, that is not necessary; but small companies want to be able to say to prospective - Speech Link
3: Lord Flight (CON - Life peer) companies are exempt. - Speech Link
4: Lord McKenzie of Luton (LAB - Life peer) The BVI, the Cayman Islands, Montserrat, Gibraltar, Anguilla, the Turks and Caicos Islands, Jersey and - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
European Union (Referendum) Bill - Fri 08 Nov 2013
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: William Bain (LAB - Glasgow North East) British Indian Ocean Territory, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, the Falkland Islands, Montserrat - Speech Link
2: William Bain (LAB - Glasgow North East) Anguilla receives €11.7 million a year and Montserrat receives €15.66 million a year. Does the hon. - Speech Link
3: Gareth Thomas (LAB - Harrow West) Montserrat, a territory that I have had the pleasure of visiting, has been in need of support ever since - Speech Link
4: Mike Gapes (TIG - Ilford South) Both of those are clearly of great benefit to British companies. - Speech Link