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.

answeredDepartment for Business and Trade

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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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Recorded timeline

  1. 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.

  2. 3 Jul 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 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...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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