Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 107108

Audit and Corporate Governance

Tabled: 20 January 2026
Answered: 28 January 2026

Question

Sarah Olney

Liberal DemocratRichmond Park

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

Kate Dearden
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...

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