Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 95798

Business: Disclosure of Information

Tabled: 1 December 2025
Answered: 9 December 2025

Question

Stuart Anderson

ConservativeSouth Shropshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the prevalence of the use of non-disclosure agreements during corporate restructuring in safety-critical sectors.

Answer

Kate Dearden
The Government is unable to assess the prevalence of the use of non-disclosure agreements across the economy, including in specific sectors, as they are private contractual agreements and data on their use is not collected. While NDAs can lawfully be used...

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