Written questions

Audit and Corporate Governance

Commons · Question 107108 · Tabled 20 Jan 2026 · Department for Business and Trade · Official record

Answered 28 Jan 2026

Question

Asked by Sarah Olney

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the estimated costs saved to businesses following the cancellation of the Audit Reform and Corporate Governance bill.

Answer

Answered by Kate Dearden, 28 Jan 2026

The Department for Business and Trade has not made a full assessment of the costs to business of the policies previously intended to form part of the Audit Reform and Corporate Governance Bill. Most of those costs would have come from the expansion of the...