Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Bill [HL] — Report (2nd Day) — 17 Jan 2018 at 19:00

Moved by Baroness Stern

73: After Clause 41, insert the following new Clause-“Public registers of beneficial ownership of companies in the British overseas territories(1) For the purpose of preventing money-laundering, the appropriate Minister must provide all reasonable assistance to the governments of-(a) Anguilla;(b) Bermuda;(c) the British Virgin Islands;(d) the Cayman Islands;(e) Montserrat; and(f) the Turks and Caicos Islands,to enable each of those governments to establish a publicly accessible register of the beneficial ownership of companies registered in that government’s jurisdiction.(2) No later than 1 January 2020 the appropriate Minister must prepare an Order in Council, and take all reasonable steps to ensure its implementation, in respect of any British overseas territories listed in subsection (1) that have not by that date introduced a publicly accessible register of the beneficial ownership of companies within their jurisdiction, requiring them to adopt such a register.(3) In this section a “publicly accessible register of beneficial ownership of companies” means a register which, in the opinion of the appropriate Minister, provides information broadly equivalent to that available in accordance with the provisions of Part 21A of the Companies Act 2006 (information about people with significant control).”

Ayes 201, Noes 211.

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Party Summary

Votes by party, red entries are votes against the majority for that party.

What is Tell? '+1 tell' means that in addition one member of that party was a teller for that division lobby.

What is Turnout? This is measured against the total membership of the party at the time of the vote.

PartyMajority (Not-Content)Minority (Content)Turnout
Con178 (+2 tell) 071.1%
Crossbench18 18 (+1 tell)21.0%
DUP3 0100.0%
Green0 1100.0%
Independent Labour1 1100.0%
Judge3 235.7%
Lab1 100 (+1 tell)50.5%
LDem1 7171.3%
Non-affiliated3 524.2%
PC0 1100.0%
UUP1 050.0%
Total:209 19952.3%

Rebel Voters - sorted by party

Lords for which their vote in this division differed from the majority vote of their party. You can see all votes in this division, or every eligible lord who could have voted in this division

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NamePartyVote
Lord Armstrong of IlminsterCrossbench (front bench)no
Lord Berkeley of KnightonCrossbenchno
Lord Butler of BrockwellCrossbench (front bench)no
Lord Carlile of BerriewCrossbenchno
Viscount Craigavon Crossbenchno
Lord Craig of RadleyCrossbench (front bench)no
Baroness Finlay of LlandaffCrossbench (front bench)no
Baroness Greengross Crossbenchno
Lord Greenway Crossbenchno
Lord Kakkar Crossbench (front bench)no
The Earl of KinnoullCrossbench (front bench)no
Lord Loomba Crossbenchno
Lord Luce Crossbenchno
Lord Pannick Crossbench (front bench)no
Lord Powell of BayswaterCrossbench (front bench)no
The Duke of SomersetCrossbenchno
Lord Trevethin and Oaksey Crossbenchno
Lord Vaux of HarrowdenCrossbenchno
Lord Judge Judge (front bench)aye
Lord Thomas of CwmgieddJudgeaye
Lord Mitchell Labno
Baroness Falkner of MargravineLDem (front bench)no
Lord Gadhia Non-affiliatedno
Lord Kalms Non-affiliatedno
Lord Taylor of WarwickNon-affiliatedno

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