Diane Abbott – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Diane Abbott on 2016-05-18.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Answer of 19 April 2016 to Question 33646, what conditions of access have been placed by (a) Jersey and (b) the Cayman Islands on their registers of beneficial ownership.

Harriett Baldwin

I refer the hon. Member to the text of the arrangements concluded between the UK and the Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and to the Oral Statement given by the Prime Minister, my right hon. Friend the Member for Witney (Mr Cameron) on 11 April 2016, Official Report, column 23.

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/beneficial-ownership-uk-overseas-territories-and-crown-dependencies

https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2016-04-11/debates/1604111000001/PanamaPapers#contribution-1604116000104