Question follow-through · 64178
Corporate Governance
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he plans to bring forward legislative proposals on corporate governance.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 1 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 9 Jul 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Economy and business
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- Audit and Corporate Governance · 29 Aug 2025
- Fireworks: Noise · 20 Oct 2025
- Members: Correspondence · 10 Nov 2025
- Paternity Leave: Newton Abbot · 10 Nov 2025
Shared topic keywords suggest a connection; they do not establish a follow-up.
Votes on this topic
- Draft Code of Practice on Electronic and Workplace Ballots for Statutory Trade Union Ballots · 15 Jul 2026
- Draft Trade Unions (Permissible Means of Voting) and Employment Rights (Unfair Dismissal) (Amendment) Order 2026 · 15 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
1 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he plans to bring forward legislative proposals on corporate governance.
3 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Jul 2025
Answer published
The Government intends to upgrade the existing reporting and audit regulator, to expand the regulator’s scrutiny to the largest private companies and to hold company directors to account for serious failures in their duties connected with company accounts...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Public Sector: Disclosure of Information
2 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to ensure that public services do not use non-disclosure agreements on whistleblowers.
Audit and Corporate Governance
29 Aug 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he plans to present the Audit Reform and Corporate Governance Bill during this parliamentary session.
Fireworks: Noise
20 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of reducing the permissible noise limits of fireworks used for (a) public and (b) private functions.
Members: Correspondence
10 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, when he plans to respond to the correspondence of 26 September 2025 submitted by the hon. member for Newton Abbot with case ref MW10473.
Paternity Leave: Newton Abbot
10 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending paternity leave for the residents of Newton Abbot constituency.
Aerials: Housing
11 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of preventing (a) housing developers, (b) management companies and (c) housing associations from imposing blanket bans on amateur radio antennas.
Minerals: Devon
20 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what (a) products and (b) geographic areas have been allocated funding as designated critical minerals sites in Devon.
Public Houses: Finance
27 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether pubs that are (a) derelict or (b) under are eligible to access and use the new hospitality support fund.
Audit and Corporate Governance
5 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he plans to bring forwards an alternative to the Audit Reform and Corporate Governance Bill.
Minerals: Cornwall
24 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what criteria is being used to identify areas as critical mineral areas in Cornwall.
Flexible Working: Devon
21 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of increased flexible working rights for workers in Devon.
Trade Agreements: Furs
29 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will take steps to ensure any future trade deal does not impact the UK's ban on the fur trade.