Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many companies owned by tax exiles have been awarded public contracts in each of the last five years for which data is available; and if he will make a statement.

Information on the ownership of companies winning government contracts is not currently held centrally.

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has established a register of people with significant control (PSC register). Companies, Societates Europaeae (SEs) and limited liability partnerships (LLPs) will be required to identify and record the people who own or control their company and must file the PSC information with the central public register at Companies House.