Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which of the UK's Overseas Territories have a fully-functional register of beneficial ownership; and which of those territories does not have such a fully-functional register.

​The creation of new central registers, or similarly effective systems has been completed in the following Overseas Territories with financial centres: British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Bermuda, and Gibraltar with legislation to underpin the registers passed by their respective legislatures. Full population of the registers with data will be taken forward as a priority in the coming months.

The Turks and Caicos Islands has passed legislation, and its register is expected to be operational by the end of July.

Anguilla has not yet established its register, and we continue to engage with the Anguillan authorities to take this forward.