Question follow-through · 3202
Community Interest Companies: Children and Vulnerable Adults
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has plans to increase the (a) monitoring and (b) oversight of community interest companies that are engaged in regulated activity with children and vulnerable adults.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 30 Aug 2024
- Target answer date
- 4 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 4 Sept 2024 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Economy and business
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- Small Businesses: Finance · 19 Nov 2024
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- Hospitality Industry: Costs · 25 Feb 2025
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Votes on this topic
- Draft Code of Practice on Electronic and Workplace Ballots for Statutory Trade Union Ballots · 15 Jul 2026
- Draft Trade Unions (Permissible Means of Voting) and Employment Rights (Unfair Dismissal) (Amendment) Order 2026 · 15 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
30 Aug 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has plans to increase the (a) monitoring and (b) oversight of community interest companies that are engaged in regulated activity with children and vulnerable adults.
4 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Sept 2024
Answer published
Different restrictions apply for those engaging in regulated activity dependent on many factors, such as the type of provision, the age, Special Educational Needs and Disability status of any children involved, and staff providing the activity. The Govern...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.
Ticketmaster
10 Sept 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if his Department will bring forward proposals to regulate the de facto monopoly of ticket sales by Ticketmaster.
Business: Young People
31 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to incentivise businesses to employ young people.
Small Businesses: Finance
19 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department plans to provide additional funding to small businesses to help meet additional costs arising from the Autumn Budget 2024.
Hospitality Industry: Government Assistance
25 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to support the independent hospitality sector with rising costs.
Hospitality Industry: Costs
25 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the resilience of the independent hospitality sector to absorb the rising costs of (a) national Insurance, (b) alcohol duty, (c) energy prices
Paternity Leave
12 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the potential benefits to working families of extending the statutory entitlement to paternity leave.
Parental Leave and Parental Pay
12 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what discussions he has had with Ministerial colleagues on publicising entitlement to Neonatal Care Pay and Leave in hospitals and other health settings to parents who could potentially be eligible.
Strike Ballots
16 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will confirm the date when the turnout requirement of at least 50% will be replaced by a simple majority vote for industrial action ballots.