Question follow-through · 36972
Construction: New Businesses
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if his Department will take steps with Companies House to create a database to enable consumers to check whether builders have previously liquidated their companies and opened new businesses under a ne
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 10 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 13 Mar 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if his Department will take steps with Companies House to create a database to enable consumers to check whether builders have previously liquidated their companies and opened new businesses under a ne
13 Mar 2025
Target answer date
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13 Mar 2025
Answer published
Companies House does not have any plans to build a specific database for the purpose outlined. Companies House is taking action to improve the quality of the information on the Register of Companies using powers made available by the Economic Crime and Co...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Furniture and Furnishings (Fire Safety) Regulations
18 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what discussions he has had with the Leader of the House on the timetable for bringing forward statutory instruments to make amendments to The Furniture and Furnishings (Fire) (Safety) Regulations 1988