Question follow-through · 58639
Certification Officer
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what plans he has to improve the operations of the Certification Officer.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 10 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 17 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 17 Jun 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what plans he has to improve the operations of the Certification Officer.
17 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Jun 2025
Answer published
The Certification Officer (CO) is independent of Government and day-to-day operations are the remit of the Officer. The CO is required by statute to report their activities to the Department for Business and Trade, and ACAS, on an annual basis. This repor...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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