Lloyd Hatton MP: written questions
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Written questions
Economic CrimeHome OfficeTabled 20 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53738More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress she has made on implementing the cross-system professional enablers strategy.
Answer: Professional enablers are a critical facilitator of serious and organised crime. In April 2024, the NCA’s National Economic Crime Centre (NECC) launched a cross-system strategy to tackle the threat posed by professional enablers; and steps taken towards t...
Answered 29 May 2025
Original Parliament recordProceeds of Crime: Disclosure of InformationHome OfficeTabled 6 May 2025AnsweredUIN 50338More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many disclosure orders under the Proceeds of Crime Act the National Crime Agency has (a) sought and (b) been granted in each of the last three years.
Answer: The NCA has several well-established powers under Part 8 (investigations) of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, which they may use to compel information during an investigation including production orders, customer information orders and disclosure orders. T...
Answered 14 May 2025
Original Parliament recordNurseriesDepartment for EducationTabled 22 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 903823More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to support school-based nurseries.
Answer: School-based nurseries are a key part of this government’s opportunity mission, delivering on our Plan for Change by expanding high-quality early education across our brilliant early years market in England. 300 schools have been awarded up to £150,000 to...
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordMoney LaunderingHome OfficeTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44807More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) prosecutions and (b) convictions of companies for money laundering there were under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 in the last five years.
Answer: The number of companies and public bodies prosecuted for the principal offence of money laundering under POCA 2002 has fluctuated between 1 and 5 each year between the year ending June 2019 and the year ending June 2024. The number of companies and public...
Answered 22 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordTrusts: AssetsTreasuryTabled 24 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40845More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) land and (b) property assets are held through UK trusts registered with the Trust Registration Services; and what the aggregate value is of (i) land and (ii) property assets held via trusts.
Answer: I can only provide a partial answer to these questions, as the information held on the Trust Registration Service in relation to land and property holdings varies depending on the category of registration. Additionally, the Trust Registration Service does...
Answered 31 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordTrusts: AssetsTreasuryTabled 24 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40843More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many trusts registered with the Trusts Registration Service hold UK land or property via a type (a) A, (b) B and (c) C trust.
Answer: I can only provide a partial answer to these questions, as the information held on the Trust Registration Service in relation to land and property holdings varies depending on the category of registration. Additionally, the Trust Registration Service does...
Answered 31 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordTrusts: AssetsTreasuryTabled 24 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40841More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many of the trusts registered with the Trusts Registration Service hold UK land or property.
Answer: I can only provide a partial answer to these questions, as the information held on the Trust Registration Service in relation to land and property holdings varies depending on the category of registration. Additionally, the Trust Registration Service does...
Answered 31 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordCrown DependenciesHome OfficeTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32749More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish the agenda for the meeting with Crown Dependencies on 3 March 2025.
Answer: We publish all Ministerial meetings in our quarterly transparency returns.We do not routinely publish the agenda or minutes of such meetings. publish the agenda or minutes of such meetings.
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordRevenue and Customs: StaffTreasuryTabled 10 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30505More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people work in the large business directorate in HMRC.
Answer: As of 31 March 2024, HMRC’s Large Business Directorate had a total of 2422 full time equivalent staff working within the directorate which includes 169 Customer Compliance Managers.
Answered 18 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordRevenue and Customs: StaffTreasuryTabled 10 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30504More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many customer compliance managers there are in the HMRC large business directorate.
Answer: As of 31 March 2024, HMRC’s Large Business Directorate had a total of 2422 full time equivalent staff working within the directorate which includes 169 Customer Compliance Managers.
Answered 18 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordTax AvoidanceTreasuryTabled 10 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30502More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to HMRC's document entitled Measuring tax gaps 2024 edition: tax gap estimates for 2022 to 2023, updated on 20 June 2024, if she will take steps to widen the scope of the published offshore tax gap st
Answer: HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is assessing the feasibility of extending the published estimate of the tax gap arising from undisclosed foreign income, including engaging with academics. HMRC is determined to address offshore tax non-compliance. At Autumn ...
Answered 18 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordCompanies House: Risk AssessmentTreasuryTabled 10 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30497More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether professional body supervisors will share risk assessments of Trusts and Corporate Service Providers with Companies House for (a) assessing and (b) granting authorised Corporate Service Provider status, in th
Answer: The Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Regulations 2017 require Professional Body Supervisors (PBSs) to identify and assess the risks of money laundering and terrorist financing in their supervised populations. An integrated reporting mechanism esta...
Answered 18 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordForeign Companies: RegistrationDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 10 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30496More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the Register of Overseas Entities (Protection and Trusts) (Amendment) Regulations 2025, whether applicants who obtain trust information through this regulation will be allowed to publ
Answer: Under these regulations the presumption is that trust data on the Register of Overseas Entities will normally be disclosed when requested. Most applications will not require the applicant to demonstrate any legitimate interest. Legitimate interest applies...
Answered 19 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordForeign Companies: RegistrationDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 10 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30495More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the Register of Overseas Entities (Protection and Trusts) (Amendment) Regulations 2025, whether applicants will need to demonstrate legitimate interest for each application where rele
Answer: Under these regulations the presumption is that trust data on the Register of Overseas Entities will normally be disclosed when requested. Most applications will not require the applicant to demonstrate any legitimate interest. Legitimate interest applies...
Answered 19 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordForeign Companies: RegistrationDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 10 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30494More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to The Register of Overseas Entities (Protection and Trusts) (Amendment) Regulations 2025, when applicants are required to demonstrate a legitimate interest; how this differs from inform
Answer: Under these regulations the presumption is that trust data on the Register of Overseas Entities will normally be disclosed when requested. Most applications will not require the applicant to demonstrate any legitimate interest. Legitimate interest applies...
Answered 19 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordMultinational Companies: TaxationTreasuryTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23626More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to require public country-by-country reporting by multinational corporations on (a) taxation and (b) where companies are (i) trading and (ii) making profits.
Answer: The UK is at the forefront of Pillar 2 implementation, ensuring that large multinational enterprises are subject to an effective tax rate of at least 15% in each jurisdiction they operate. The government does not have plans to make country-by-country repo...
Answered 21 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordBangladesh: AssetsForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 11 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19555More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department has provided the interim government in Bangladesh with support for the asset recovery of funds potentially misappropriated by the previous government.
Answer: The UK is committed to assisting investigative, prosecuting and judicial authorities in combating international crime. We have robust illicit finance legislation and instruments which can be used to support asset recovery requests. Requests require signif...
Answered 17 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordEconomic CrimeHome OfficeTabled 10 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19167More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of establishing ring-fenced funding for taking criminal enforcement measures against professional enablers of economic crimes.
Answer: Professional enablers are a critical facilitator of serious and organised crime, particularly in helping criminals and corrupt elites move and hide their illicit funds across the world, including in the UK.The National Economic Crime Centre launched a cro...
Answered 18 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordPublic Bodies: Conflict of InterestsCabinet OfficeTabled 10 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19166More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the National Audit Office's report entitled Managing conflicts of interest: value for money, published on 22 November 2024, whether the Government plans to introduce central electronic register
Answer: We are committed to restoring public confidence in government and ensuring that all those in public service are held to the highest standards. We will consider carefully the National Audit Office’s recommendations in its recent report ‘Managing Conflicts ...
Answered 17 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordWaste ManagementDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 4 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 18005More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the Residual Waste Infrastructure Capacity Note will make an assessment of the adequacy of (a) incineration capacity and (b) potential feedstock availability in the light of (i
Answer: This is a devolved matter, and the information provided therefore relates to England only. The Government is committed to transitioning to a circular economy. As part of this we will consider the role of Energy from Waste, including waste incineration, in...
Answered 20 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordAdministration of JusticeMinistry of JusticeTabled 24 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 11138More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what her planned timetable is to respond to her Department’s consultation entitled Open Justice: the way forward which closed on 7 September 2023.
Answer: The Ministry of Justice ran a Call for Evidence from 11 May to 7 September 2023 under the previous Government. It was the first system-wide public assessment on open justice and transparency in over ten years. The consultation received a wide volume of re...
Answered 1 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordIndependent Adviser on Ministers' InterestsCabinet OfficeTabled 15 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9330More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when he plans to publish a new terms of reference for the Independent Advisor on Ministerial Interests; and whether this will include the power to initiate investigations.
Answer: I refer to the answer to UIN 5293.
Answered 31 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordMinisters: Codes of PracticeCabinet OfficeTabled 15 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9328More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when he plans to publish a new Ministerial Code of Conduct; and whether it will include (a) an explicit commitment to the seven Principles of Public Life, (b) an ability for the Independent Adviser on Ministeria
Answer: The Prime Minister intends to issue and publish an updated version of the Ministerial Code shortly, in which he will set out his expectations for the conduct of all who serve in Government as Ministers.
Answered 22 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordPolitical Parties: FinanceMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 15 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9327More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to take steps to strengthen the rules on donations to political parties.
Answer: I refer my Hon Friend to my answer to Question UIN 7510 on 15 October 2024.
Answered 23 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordBritish Overseas Territories: CompaniesForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 9 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8363More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he intends to publish a deadline for the implementation public registers of beneficial ownership in the Overseas Territories per the requirements in the Sanctions and
Answer: Overseas Territories' (OTs) commitments to delivering publicly accessible registers of beneficial ownership were outlined in a Written Ministerial Statement of 18 December 2023. This month, as Minister for the OTs, I wrote to OT Governments to set out UK ...
Answered 18 Oct 2024
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