Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what activities will take place during the technical workshops to be held with the Overseas Territories for the establishment of public registers of beneficial ownership.

The FCO is working with other Government Departments to determine the possible date, location and topics that should be included in the technical workshops.

Prior to the first technical workshop, the FCO will consult all of the Overseas Territories to find out what topics they would find it useful to cover. This should ensure that the sessions are appropriately designed.

For the workshops themselves, we will aim to provide expertise from a range of Departments and Executive Agencies; including Companies House, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the Department for International Development and the Home Office.