Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 3:02 pm on 10 July 2017.
Lord Young of Cookham
Lord in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip), Lords Spokesperson (Cabinet Office)
3:02,
10 July 2017
I am grateful to my noble friend. It is indeed now July, and I am happy to tell him that good progress has been made with the overseas territories and the Crown dependencies. Most of the larger territories already had these central registers in place. I think that only two, or possibly three, have not met the deadline, and they are making good progress. Therefore, significant information is now available, almost real time, in this country for law enforcement and HMRC because of the central registers of beneficial ownership that the overseas territories and the Crown dependencies have now introduced following last year’s London summit.