Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether (a) he and (b) the Minister for the Overseas Territories discussed the creation of public registers of beneficial ownership which name the owners of offshore companies with the Deputy Premier of Bermuda in the last six months.
The Minister for the Overseas Territories (OTs), the Rt Hon. Baroness Anelay of St Johns who holds responsibility for these issues discussed the importance of implementing the bilateral arrangements concluded in April 2016 with OTs with financial centres to OT leaders at the Joint Ministerial Council on European Negotiations held in London on 7 February.