Question follow-through · 78138
Small Businesses: Annual Reports
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to help reduce the level of annual reporting for small companies.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 10 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 14 Oct 2025 · 4 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to help reduce the level of annual reporting for small companies.
14 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Oct 2025
Answer published
The Department is reviewing non-financial reporting requirements to simplify, streamline and reduce reporting obligations for all companies. These reforms aim to reduce administrative burdens on business, particularly for small companies. The review has a...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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