Written questions

Business: Disclosure of Information

Commons · Question 92201 · Tabled 18 Nov 2025 · Department for Business and Trade · Official record

Answered 26 Nov 2025

Question

Asked by Preet Kaur Gill

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of trends in the level of the use of Non-Disclosure Agreements during corporate restructuring in safety-critical sectors; and

Answer

Answered by Kate Dearden, 26 Nov 2025

The Government is unable to assess sector-based trends on the use of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) as they are private contractual agreements and data on their use is not collected. While NDAs can lawfully be used to require one or more parties to keep...