Speeches

Lord Myners – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Myners on 2015-02-10.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether Lord Green of Hurstpierpoint was made aware of the information forwarded to them by the government of France on alleged tax evasion made possible by HSBC.

Lord Deighton

Due to the longstanding legal requirements for taxpayer confidentiality, Ministers are not made aware of invidual tax cases. At no point were Ministers made aware of any suggestion of wrong doing by HSBC itself.