Written questions

Companies: Registration

Commons · Question 19220 · Tabled 11 Dec 2024 · Treasury · Official record

Answered 19 Dec 2024

Question

Asked by Sir Iain Duncan Smith

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an assessment of the implications for her policies of reports that Chinese companies have registered more than 30,000 companies at UK addresses where the registered owners have no connection to

Answer

Answered by Tulip Siddiq, 19 Dec 2024

DBT and Companies House are moving at pace to implement the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2024, a principal purpose of which is to strengthen the powers of the Registrar of Companies to bear down on the abuse of corporate structures in the...