Question follow-through · 84424
Community Interest Companies: Electronic Government
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of mandatory digital filing requirements on Community Interest Companies (CICs); and what steps he is taking to support CICs to (a)
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 22 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 28 Oct 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
22 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of mandatory digital filing requirements on Community Interest Companies (CICs); and what steps he is taking to support CICs to (a)
27 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Oct 2025
Answer published
CICs file accounts to Companies House in the same way as other companies. The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 Impact Assessment assesses impacts of removing paper accounts filing. We are reviewing our proposed changes in filing requirem...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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