Question follow-through · 23330
Community Interest Companies
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department plans to allow not-for-profit Community Interest Companies to receive the associated advantages of non-profit organisations.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 13 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 20 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 20 Jan 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department plans to allow not-for-profit Community Interest Companies to receive the associated advantages of non-profit organisations.
20 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Jan 2025
Answer published
While Community Interest Companies (CICs) must satisfy the Regulator that their primary purpose is to benefit a community, they can still generate profit, albeit with restrictions on profit distribution and as long as profits are primarily used to benefit...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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