Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he expects Montserrat’s public register of beneficial ownership to be published; and what support in publishing that register the Government is providing.
Montserrat committed in November 2015 to include beneficial ownership information in its existing public companies register. A Bill requiring legal entities to hold beneficial ownership information and to submit it for inclusion in the existing public central register will be introduced to Montserrat's Legislative Assembly later this month. The target date for the addition of beneficial ownership information to the existing register is 1 April 2018.