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Westminster Hall
Hospitality Sector: Fiscal Support - Wed 31 Jan 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Alyn Smith (SNP - Stirling) VAT on accommodation is 10% in Austria, 6% in Belgium and 9% in Cyprus. - Speech Link
2: Alyn Smith (SNP - Stirling) A number of business owners in Stirling have told me that once they invested in refurbishing their pub - Speech Link
3: Wera Hobhouse (LD - Bath) Many owners fear that they may have to close permanently in the coming year; many others have already - Speech Link
4: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Mid Worcestershire) Members that reliefs are also available for improvements in property. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Beneficial Ownership Registers: Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies - Thu 07 Dec 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Margaret Hodge (Lab - Barking) preventing us from knowing the actual beneficial owner of property in the UK. - Speech Link
2: Margaret Hodge (Lab - Barking) All of those requests were in relation to trusts listed as the beneficial owners of overseas companies - Speech Link
3: Angela Eagle (Lab - Wallasey) registered in the British Virgin Islands. - Speech Link
4: Richard Thomson (SNP - Gordon) registered in the British Virgin Islands. - Speech Link
5: Marie Rimmer (Lab - St Helens South and Whiston) registered in the British Virgin Islands. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Repurposing Russian Assets to Rebuild Ukraine - Tue 27 Jun 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Dave Doogan (SNP - Angus) the world, with much of the money hidden via London in offshore trusts in British overseas territories - Speech Link
2: Julian Lewis (CON - New Forest East) Surely, even if the assets are not seized in the end, their owners should not benefit from anything that - Speech Link
3: Nia Griffith (LAB - Llanelli) There are now some 77 of those investors registered at the Land Registry as part owners of the hotel, - Speech Link
4: Layla Moran (LDEM - Oxford West and Abingdon) We know that he funnels money through his oligarchs, which they squirrel away in property, superyachts - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Register of Overseas Entities (Definition of Foreign Limited Partner, Protection and Rectification) Regulations 2023 - Tue 02 May 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Earl of Minto (CON - Excepted Hereditary) It requires overseas entities owning or buying property in the UK to give information about their beneficial - Speech Link
2: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LDEM - Life peer) so far were British, by both nationality and residence. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill
Committee stage - Thu 20 Apr 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Faulks (Non-affiliated - Life peer) a property in Belgravia worth several million pounds. - Speech Link
2: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LDEM - Life peer) Moreover, the sovereign base areas of Cyprus were included in the extent of the Bill but not most of - Speech Link
3: Lord Johnson of Lainston (CON - Life peer) owners to Companies House in order to retain their ability to freely transact with their land or property - Speech Link
4: None under trusts),paragraph 5 (information about changes in trusts in which beneficial owners trustees), - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
National Security Bill
2nd reading - Tue 06 Dec 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames (LDEM - Life peer) public even if the owners of such information might regard such airing as highly unwelcome.In the unforeseen - Speech Link
2: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LDEM - Life peer) British politics and elections. - Speech Link
3: Lord Tyrie (Non-affiliated - Life peer) In its first investigation the ISC erroneously concluded that there had been no British involvement in - Speech Link
4: Lord Craig of Radley (CB - Life peer) Clause 7, which lists the UK and the SBAs—sovereign base areas—in Cyprus. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Eighteenth sitting)
Committee stage: 18th sitting - Thu 24 Nov 2022
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Stephen Kinnock (LAB - Aberavon) by which criminals attempt to conceal the true owners of property in places such as the UK.As the Financial - Speech Link
2: Stephen Kinnock (LAB - Aberavon) Council requiring open registers of beneficial ownership in the British Overseas Territories comes into - Speech Link
3: Stephen Kinnock (LAB - Aberavon) It is our Treasury and other expertise in our British Government saying, “That jurisdiction over there - Speech Link
4: None Cyprus, and Beechwood House is owned by a company based in the Isle of Man. - Speech Link
5: Liam Byrne (LAB - Birmingham, Hodge Hill) Two of the properties were bought by companies in the British Virgin Islands and sold on to Panamanian - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Twelfth sitting)
Committee stage: 12th sitting - Tue 15 Nov 2022
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Margaret Hodge (LAB - Barking) A great example of that is Ruth Neidhart, a 71-year-old Swiss national who lived in Cyprus. - Speech Link
2: Kevin Hollinrake (CON - Thirsk and Malton) cannot own property or assets in their own name; any assets are held in the name of the partners themselves - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Eighth sitting)
Committee stage: 8th sitting - Thu 03 Nov 2022
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Kevin Hollinrake (CON - Thirsk and Malton) However, in return the amendment undermines the agency of company owners to act independently and in - Speech Link
2: Margaret Hodge (LAB - Barking) to outsource responsibility for checking the unique identification of beneficial owners. - Speech Link
3: None in the British Virgin Islands, Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, the Isle of Man—all tax havens. - Speech Link
4: Margaret Hodge (LAB - Barking) We had this terrible explosion in Lebanon, with hundreds of people killed and lots of property destroyed - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Third sitting)
Committee stage: 3rd sitting - Thu 27 Oct 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Seema Malhotra (LAB - Feltham and Heston) However, as with many British exports, we are now exporting that abroad and it is being copied and replicated - Speech Link
2: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) partnerships.What is bizarre is that MPs have thankfully legislated to end secretive ownership of UK property - Speech Link
3: Liam Byrne (LAB - Birmingham, Hodge Hill) What I said earlier was that if you use an offshore entity to hold UK property, as a result of legislation - Speech Link
4: Margaret Hodge (LAB - Barking) It was found that a British-owned company was behind that, with a beneficial owner in Cyprus who happened - Speech Link