Question follow-through · 40295
Business and Investment: Carbon Emissions and Sustainable Development
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to help encourage (a) large companies and (b) investment funds to adopt sustainable net zero practices.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 21 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 25 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 31 Mar 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to help encourage (a) large companies and (b) investment funds to adopt sustainable net zero practices.
25 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
31 Mar 2025
Answer published
Under current rules, certain large companies and investment funds are required to disclose information about the ways they are responding to the risks posed by climate change and seizing the economic opportunities that it presents. Going forward, the Gove...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Companies: Directors
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New Businesses and Small Businesses
12 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to support (a) small and (b) start-up businesses.