Question follow-through · 49155
Competition and Markets Authority: Public Appointments
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 28 April 2025 to Question 45218 on Competition and Markets Authority: Public Appointments what steps is he is taking to help ensure adequate (a) scrutiny and (b) accountabilit
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 29 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 1 May 2025
- Answer
- 8 May 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 28 April 2025 to Question 45218 on Competition and Markets Authority: Public Appointments what steps is he is taking to help ensure adequate (a) scrutiny and (b) accountabilit
1 May 2025
Target answer date
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8 May 2025
Answer published
As set out in the Competition and Markets Authority (“CMA”) Framework Agreement, the performance of the CMA Chair is reviewed annually by the responsible Director General within the Department for Business and Trade in accordance with the Chair’s duties a...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Climate Change: Manufacturing Industries
21 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to support (a) manufacturing and (b) heavy industry with climate-transition policies.
Trade Promotion: Israel
3 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recent discussions he has had with the UK trade envoy to Israel.
Chemicals: Sanitary Products
4 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to help tackle the presence of (a) pesticides and (b) other harmful chemicals in period products.
Supermarkets: Prices
6 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of supermarket loyalty schemes on consumer pricing.
Supermarkets: Prices
6 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he plans to review the (a) use of personal data in supermarket loyalty schemes and (b) the potential impact of those schemes on equitable pricing.
Supermarkets: Prices
6 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he is taking steps to prevent consumers who do not opt in to supermarket loyalty schemes from being charged higher prices.
Companies: Directors
12 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if his Department will amend section 172 of the Companies Act 2006 to require company directors to balance the duty to promote the success of the company with duties to (a) employees and (b) the enviro
Companies: Directors
12 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will meet with (a) the hon. Member for Newton Abbot and (b) members of the business community to discuss expanding the duties of company directors.
Company Directors (Duties) Bill
12 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will support the (a) passage and (b) principle of the Company Directors (Duties) Bill.
Corporate Governance: Reform
12 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he plans to support reform in corporate governance from shareholder primacy towards stakeholder primacy.
Corporate Governance: Reform
12 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department plans to consult (a) businesses, (b) trade unions, (c) investors and (d) civil society organisations on the principle of moving from shareholder primacy to stakeholder primacy.
Corporate Governance: Reform
12 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of changes to corporate governance law on economic output.