Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Alan Duncan and Lord Stunell

Wednesday 30th January 2013 Commons Chamber

[Mr Duncan]

Tax is one of the main themes of the G8, and my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has made it absolutely clear, including in his speech at the Davos world economic forum last week, that it is one of his top priorities for our presidency.

[Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove) (LD)]

T4. What is being done to ensure that the companies of the world smell the coffee, as the Prime Minister wants, when it comes to developing countries receiving their tax income?

[Mr Duncan]

It is the policy both of our presidency of the G8 and of DFID more generally in our work in poor countries to get far greater transparency from global corporations and to ensure that they pay their fair share of tax and that they do so to the most appropriate tax regimes in which they work.