Paradise Papers Debate

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Department: HM Treasury

Paradise Papers

Robert Jenrick Excerpts
Monday 6th November 2017

(7 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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Mel Stride Portrait Mel Stride
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The Finance Bill, which has just gone through the House, contains important provisions to clamp down on those who enable tax avoidance—the category of individual and company to which the hon. Lady refers—and those are some pretty stiff penalties.

Robert Jenrick Portrait Robert Jenrick (Newark) (Con)
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Will my right hon. Friend confirm my understanding that the profits of the Duchy of Lancaster are used exclusively for official purposes, that its investment board is at arm’s length from the Government and that if anyone wants to question who was overseeing the investment board at the time of any suspicious transactions, they should go and see the Labour Ministers at the time?

Mel Stride Portrait Mel Stride
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The accounts of the Duchy of Lancaster are readily available, transparent and audited in the normal fashion, and there has been no suggestion to date, as far as I am aware and certainly not in the television programme last night, of any mischief related to any aspect of its dealings.