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British Overseas Territories: Companies

Commons · Question 32450 · Tabled 21 Feb 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office · Official record

Answered 28 Feb 2025

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Asked by Martin Wrigley

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make it his policy to publish a deadline for the implementation public registers of beneficial ownership in the Overseas Territories.

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Answered by Stephen Doughty, 28 Feb 2025

At the Joint Ministerial Council (JMC) in November 2024, the Falkland Islands and St Helena committed to join Montserrat and Gibraltar in implementing fully public registers by April 2025.Other OTs, including the British Virgin Islands, Cayman, Bermuda, A...