Question follow-through · 124390
Debt Collection and Repossession Orders: Palliative Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his department is taking to help ensure that businesses sympathetically consider when their customers are receiving palliative care in debt recovery and repossession cases.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 26 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 13 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 13 Apr 2026 · 18 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
26 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his department is taking to help ensure that businesses sympathetically consider when their customers are receiving palliative care in debt recovery and repossession cases.
13 Apr 2026
Target answer date
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13 Apr 2026
Answer published
The Government recognises the importance of responsible and fair practices for debt recovery and understands the negative impact that aggressive or wrongful pursuit of debt can have on individuals. Firms which collect on consumer credit agreements or mort...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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