Question follow-through · 20806
Multinational Companies
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to ensure greater oversight of UK-based multinational corporations.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 17 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 19 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 24 Dec 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to ensure greater oversight of UK-based multinational corporations.
19 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Dec 2024
Answer published
As set out in the King’s Speech, the Government will publish a draft Audit Reform and Corporate Governance Bill to strengthen audit and corporate governance oversight of corporations including UK-based multinationals. The draft Bill will uphold standards ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Spirit AeroSystems
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Iron and Steel: Imports
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Companies: Directors
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