Companies: Overseas Territories Registration

Lord Howell of Guildford Excerpts
Wednesday 20th April 2016

(8 years, 7 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Baroness Anelay of St Johns Portrait Baroness Anelay of St Johns
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My Lords, I have to take the noble Lord a little to task here. It is the case that where there is a central register of beneficial ownership, the National Crime Agency and the tax authorities—which are of course operations of this Government—are able to gain access to the very information that the noble Lord specified. I gently remind him that in taking a lead on these matters since 2010, in the coalition Government and now, we have done more than the Labour Government even attempted to do in 13 years.

Baroness Northover Portrait Baroness Northover (LD)
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My Lords, as the Minister clearly—