Question follow-through · 31212
Companies House: Reform
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department has taken to reform Companies House to tackle illicit finance.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 12 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 27 Feb 2025 · 15 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department has taken to reform Companies House to tackle illicit finance.
24 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Feb 2025
Answer published
The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (ECCTA) will fundamentally reform Companies House, enabling it to play a greater role in tackling economic crime.The first of these reforms came into force in March 2024 and included new powers to que...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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