| Heading: |
Companies: Registration |
| Question ID: |
1810106 |
| UIN: |
HL8191 |
| House: |
Lords |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-05 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4885 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Lord Sikka
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| Asking Member handle: |
premnsikka
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@premnsikka
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask His Majesty's Government how they sanction foreign resident directors of UK registered companies for violations of company law. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-18 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
3792 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
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| Answering Member handle: |
WhitchurchGirl
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@WhitchurchGirl
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Correcting Member display name: |
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| Answer text: |
The Companies Act 2006 applies equally to all UK registered companies and their officers regardless of where the directors are based. Insolvency Service decisions to pursue an allegation of criminal misconduct by a foreign resident director of a UK regist... |
| Original answer text: |
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| Comparable answer text: |
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| Answering body ID: |
214 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Business and Trade |
| Tweeted: |
true |