Question follow-through · 95798
Business: Disclosure of Information
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the prevalence of the use of non-disclosure agreements during corporate restructuring in safety-critical sectors.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 1 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 9 Dec 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
1 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the prevalence of the use of non-disclosure agreements during corporate restructuring in safety-critical sectors.
3 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Dec 2025
Answer published
The Government is unable to assess the prevalence of the use of non-disclosure agreements across the economy, including in specific sectors, as they are private contractual agreements and data on their use is not collected. While NDAs can lawfully be used...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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