Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which of the UK's Crown Dependencies have a fully functional register of beneficial ownership; and which of those dependencies does not have such a fully-functional register.

The construction of central registers or similarly effective systems is complete in all our Crown Dependencies. Legislation to underpin the registers has been passed by their respective legislatures. Guernsey and Alderney’s legislation to enable their registers to be operational will be considered by the Privy Council this month. Population of the registers with data will be taken forward as a priority in the coming months.