Information between 23rd February 2024 - 13th April 2024
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Foreign Affairs
82 speeches (33,311 words) Tuesday 5th March 2024 - Lords Chamber Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office Mentions: 1: Lord Naseby (Con - Life peer) I declare an interest: I have family in the Cayman Islands. It is pretty devastating when it hits. - Link to Speech |
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Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
97 speeches (30,419 words) Report stage Tuesday 27th February 2024 - Commons Chamber Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities Mentions: 1: Barry Gardiner (Lab - Brent North) Minister will know that many developers have located themselves extrajudicially in places such as the Cayman - Link to Speech |
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Overseas Territories: Tax Haven Status
20 speeches (1,402 words) Monday 26th February 2024 - Lords Chamber HM Treasury Mentions: 1: Lord Naseby (Con - Life peer) My Lords, I declare an interest as I have family living in the Cayman Islands. - Link to Speech 2: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) I am grateful for my noble friend’s support for the Cayman Islands, but it is just one of the many different - Link to Speech |
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Tuesday 26th March 2024
Written Evidence - Hong Kong Watch DED0028 - Defending Democracy Defending Democracy - National Security Strategy (Joint Committee) Found: company headquartered in Dubai and owned through several holding companies in Jersey, the Cayman |
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Wednesday 28th February 2024
Oral Evidence - Sir Robert Buckland, and University College London The UK Government’s engagement regarding the British Indian Ocean Territory - Foreign Affairs Sub-Committee on the Overseas Territories Found: Q43 Andrew Rosindell: Of course, the Cayman Islands were part of Jamaica, and they decided to separate |
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Wednesday 28th February 2024
Oral Evidence - David Snoxell, and King's College London The UK Government’s engagement regarding the British Indian Ocean Territory - Foreign Affairs Sub-Committee on the Overseas Territories Found: Q43 Andrew Rosindell: Of course, the Cayman Islands were part of Jamaica, and they decided to separate |
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Military Attachés
Asked by: Maria Eagle (Labour - Garston and Halewood) Thursday 14th March 2024 Question to the Ministry of Defence: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 17 November 2023 to Question 1027 on Military Attachés, if he will publish an updated list of countries without a resident UK Defence Attache. Answered by James Heappey The Global Defence Network (GDN) utilises Resident and Non-Resident Defence Attachés (DA), who engage in Defence diplomacy in over three-quarters of the world’s nations. The table below has a list of countries covered on a Non-Residential Accreditations (NRA) basis, where a UK DA is not resident in country, but a DA elsewhere has the responsibility.
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Darwin Initiative: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
Asked by: Matthew Offord (Conservative - Hendon) Monday 11th March 2024 Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what environmental projects have been funded through Darwin Plus in South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands since 2019. Answered by Rebecca Pow - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) Since 2019, Darwin Plus has funded 21 environmental projects of benefit to South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands. These are listed in the table below. Please visit the Darwin Plus website at https://darwinplus.org.uk/ for full details of funded projects.
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Darwin Initiative: Antarctic
Asked by: Matthew Offord (Conservative - Hendon) Friday 8th March 2024 Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what environmental projects have been funded through Darwin Plus in Antartica since 2019. Answered by Rebecca Pow - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) Since 2019, Darwin Plus has funded 22 environmental projects of benefit to the Falkland Islands. These are listed in the table below.
Please visit the Darwin Plus website at https://darwinplus.org.uk/ for full details of funded projects.
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Darwin Initiative: Falkland Islands
Asked by: Matthew Offord (Conservative - Hendon) Friday 8th March 2024 Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what environmental projects have been funded through Darwin Plus in the Falkland Islands since 2019. Answered by Rebecca Pow - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) Since 2019, Darwin Plus has funded 6 environmental projects of benefit to the British Antarctic Territory. These are listed in the table below.
Please visit the Darwin Plus website at https://darwinplus.org.uk/ for full details of funded projects.
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Air Navigation (Overseas Territories) (Environmental Standards) Order 2024 This Order revokes and replaces the Air Navigation (Overseas Territories) (Environmental Standards) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/2926) as amended by the Air Navigation (Overseas Territories) (Environmental Standards) (Amendment) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/236). Parliamentary Status - Text of Legislation - Made negative Laid: Wednesday 20th March - In Force: 10 Apr 2024 Found: 3(3)SCHEDULETERRITORIES TO WHICH THIS ORDER EXTENDSAnguilla Bermuda British Indian Ocean Territory Cayman |
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Wednesday 3rd April 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office Source Page: Freedom of Information in the Cayman Islands Document: Disclosure Log July 2012 to May 2013 (PDF) Found: Freedom of Information in the Cayman Islands |
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Wednesday 3rd April 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office Source Page: Freedom of Information in the Cayman Islands Document: Freedom of Information in the Cayman Islands (webpage) Found: Freedom of Information in the Cayman Islands |
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Monday 26th February 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office Source Page: How the public can help conserve rare marine species using phones Document: How the public can help conserve rare marine species using phones (webpage) Found: Find out more information on the Global Ocean Wildlife Analysis Network (GOWAN): Cayman Islands Projects |
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Friday 23rd February 2024
Home Office Source Page: UK-Frontex working arrangement Document: Working arrangement establishing operational cooperation between the European Border and Coast Guard Agency and the Home Office of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (PDF) Found: Anguilla; Bermuda; British Antarctic Territory; British Indian Ocean Territory; British Virgin Islands; Cayman |
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Apr. 08 2024
HM Passport Office Source Page: Cayman Islands: Knowledge Base profile Document: Cayman Islands: Knowledge Base profile (webpage) Guidance and Regulation Found: Cayman Islands: Knowledge Base profile |
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Feb. 28 2024
Intellectual Property Office Source Page: Extension of UK intellectual property rights abroad Document: Extension of UK intellectual property rights abroad (webpage) Guidance and Regulation Found: Published 10 June 2014 Last updated 28 February 2024 + show all updates 28 February 2024 Cayman |
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Mar. 25 2024
Upper Tribunal (Tax and Chancery Chamber) Source Page: ALEXANDER BEARD v THE COMMISSIONERS FOR HIS MAJESTY’S REVENUE AND CUSTOMS [2024] UKUT 00073 (TCC) Document: Beard v HMRC - FINAL (PDF) News and Communications Found: A major part of the case was concerned with whether each of two distributions made by a Cayman Islands |
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Mar. 21 2024
UK Hydrographic Office Source Page: Collaboration between the UK Overseas Territories hydrographic community Document: Collaboration between the UK Overseas Territories hydrographic community (webpage) News and Communications Found: conducting a number of hydrographic surveys under the survey programme, such as the one conducted in the Cayman |
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Feb. 23 2024
Border Force Source Page: UK-Frontex working arrangement Document: Working arrangement establishing operational cooperation between the European Border and Coast Guard Agency and the Home Office of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (PDF) Policy paper Found: Anguilla; Bermuda; British Antarctic Territory; British Indian Ocean Territory; British Virgin Islands; Cayman |
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Jan. 16 2024
Export Control Joint Unit Source Page: Strategic export controls: licensing statistics: 1 April to 30 June 2023 Document: (ODS) Research and Statistics Found: Issued Non-military 1 8550 Cape Verde Standard Issued Total of Military, Non-military and Both 1 8550 Cayman |
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Wednesday 28th February 2024
Home Office Source Page: I. Working arrangement establishing operational cooperation between the European Border and Coast Guard Agency and the Home Office of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Incl. annex. 17p. II. Explanatory memorandum on the working arrangement. 4p. Document: Frontex.pdf (PDF) Found: Anguilla; Bermuda; British Antarctic Territory; British Indian Ocean Territory; British Virgin Islands; Cayman |
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Wednesday 28th February 2024
Home Office Source Page: I. Working arrangement establishing operational cooperation between the European Border and Coast Guard Agency and the Home Office of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Incl. annex. 17p. II. Explanatory memorandum on the working arrangement. 4p. Document: Memorandum.pdf (PDF) Found: Anguilla; Bermuda; British Antarctic Territory; British Indian Ocean Territory; British Virgin Islands; Cayman |
| Scottish Parliamentary Debates |
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Scotland’s Place in the World
133 speeches (118,880 words) Tuesday 5th March 2024 - Main Chamber Mentions: 1: Thomson, Michelle (SNP - Falkirk East) However, the UK has not updated the treaty with well-known tax haven, the Cayman Islands, since 2011. - Link to Speech |