| Heading: |
Digital Assets: Licensing |
| Question ID: |
1796782 |
| UIN: |
47626 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-04-24 |
| Asking Member ID: |
1447 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Andrew Rosindell
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| Asking Member handle: |
AndrewRosindell
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@AndrewRosindell
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that applications to the Financial Conduct Authority for licences to operate in the UK by (a) crypto and (b) digital asset businesses are processed in a timely mann |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-05-02 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4077 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Emma Reynolds
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| Answering Member handle: |
emmaforwycombe
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@emmaforwycombe
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| Answer text: |
The Government launched an anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing regime for cryptoassets in January 2020. This means UK cryptoasset exchange providers and custodian wallet providers are now in scope of the UK’s Money Laundering and Terrori... |
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| Answering body ID: |
14 |
| Answering body name: |
Treasury |
| Tweeted: |
true |