Question follow-through · 52420
Directors: Debts
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he plans to take to prevent company directors from dissolving indebted businesses and then establishing a similar business without paying former debts.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 14 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 20 May 2025
- Answer
- 20 May 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he plans to take to prevent company directors from dissolving indebted businesses and then establishing a similar business without paying former debts.
20 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 May 2025
Answer published
The Government expects directors to act lawfully and responsibly in respect of the companies they run and that includes ensuring that liabilities and other obligations are discharged before they apply for a company's voluntary dissolution. Those who fail ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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