Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the Open Government National Action Plan 2016-18, published on 12 May 2016, for what reason the Government's April 2018 deadline for bringing forward legislative proposals on the property ownership register has not been met.

A Written Ministerial Statement (HCWS425) was published on 24 January 2018 confirming the timetable for the establishment of a public register of beneficial owners of non-UK entities that own or buy property in the UK. As committed to in the Written Ministerial Statement, the Government published a draft Bill before the summer recess.