Question follow-through · 38669
British Overseas Territories: Companies
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the levels of compliance by overseas territories on providing public registers of beneficial ownership.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
- Tabled
- 17 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 31 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 31 Mar 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the levels of compliance by overseas territories on providing public registers of beneficial ownership.
31 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
31 Mar 2025
Answer published
At the Joint Ministerial Council (JMC) in November 2024, the Falkland Islands and Saint Helena committed to join Montserrat and Gibraltar in implementing fully public registers by April 2025. The British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Anguilla a...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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