Asked by: Margaret Hodge (Labour - Barking)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many companies have disclosed information to Companies House on persons with significant control in their company as part of their company register since 6 April 2016.
Answered by Margot James
As at 10 October 2016, the total number of companies that have disclosed information on people with significant control (PSC) for the period 6 April to 10 October is 779,043.
Asked by: Margaret Hodge (Labour - Barking)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the register of persons with significant control, what proportion of returns from companies have listed a shell company in an offshore tax haven as the persons with significant control of that company since 6 April 2016.
Answered by Margot James
Companies House does not hold figures on the number of companies that have registered a shell company as their PSC. Companies can legitimately register a company as their PSC if that company meets the conditions of control, is the first legal entity in a company’s ownership chain and they are subject to their own disclosure requirements. A full explanation of the rules can be found in BEIS guidance.
Asked by: Margaret Hodge (Labour - Barking)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many times his Department has used the services of (a) PwC, (b) Deloitte, (c) Ernst and Young, (d) KPMG and (e) other consulting firms in the last three financial years; and what (i) work was undertaken and (ii) the cost to the public purse was on each such occasion.
Answered by Lord Johnson of Marylebone
The information requested for this PQ is publicly available. Since BEIS has recently been created through a machinery of government change the data is available through separate weblinks.
The ex-DECC link is: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/departmental-spend-over-500. This contains all monthly transactions in excess of £500.
The ex-BIS link is: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/bis-spending-totals. This contains all monthly transactions in excess of £500.
Asked by: Margaret Hodge (Labour - Barking)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will publish a list of all secondees to his Department from (a) PwC, (b) Deloitte, (c) Ernst and Young, (d) KPMG and (e) other consulting firms in the last three financial years; and what the role was of each of those secondees.
Answered by Lord Johnson of Marylebone
This response covers the former Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) and former Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC):
Financial year: | From: | To: | Role: |
2013/14 | (b) Deloitte | 1 secondee to “Office for Life Sciences” which is a joint Department of health / BIS team | Director |
2014 / 15 | (a) PwC | 1 secondee to former BIS | Strategic advisor |
(e) Other consulting firm | 1 secondee to former BIS | Information not held centrally | |
1 secondee to former DECC | Corporate Finance Advisor | ||
2015 / 16 | (b) Deloitte | 1 secondee to former DECC | Information not held centrally |