| Heading: |
Company Liquidations |
| Question ID: |
1786890 |
| UIN: |
39989 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-03-20 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5070 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Lisa Smart
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Lisa Smart
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to improve regulatory oversight of company directors with a history of multiple liquidations. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-03-27 |
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false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4418 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Justin Madders
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| Answering Member handle: |
justinmadders
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@justinmadders
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| Answer text: |
Company and insolvency law already provides relevant authorities with the ability to investigate the conduct of directors of liquidated companies and to act upon misconduct. Imposing prescriptive prohibitions risks penalising the innocent and we have no p... |
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| Answering body ID: |
214 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Business and Trade |
| Tweeted: |
true |