Question follow-through · 66290
Company Voluntary Arrangements
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps she is taking to prevent solvent companies from using Company Voluntary Arrangements to avoid meeting their (a) redundancy and (b) notice period obligations.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 9 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 11 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 16 Jul 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps she is taking to prevent solvent companies from using Company Voluntary Arrangements to avoid meeting their (a) redundancy and (b) notice period obligations.
11 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Jul 2025
Answer published
Company Voluntary Arrangements (“CVAs”) are a restructuring process for insolvent or contingently insolvent companies. To be eligible, a company must meet the insolvent test as assessed by an insolvency practitioner and the CVA must be agreed by a majorit...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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