Question follow-through · 114604
Companies: Audit
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that audit requirements are accessible and affordable for small and mid-sized quoted companies.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 20 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 24 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 25 Feb 2026 · 5 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
20 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that audit requirements are accessible and affordable for small and mid-sized quoted companies.
24 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Feb 2026
Answer published
The government has previously announced its plans to modernise and simplify the corporate reporting framework and expects to publish a consultation on the Modernising Corporate Reporting shortly. The consultation will consider financial, non-financial, re...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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