Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 27451

Companies: Conditions of Employment and Environment

Tabled: 29 January 2025
Answered: 6 February 2025

Question

Steve Race

LabourExeter

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what support his Department is offering to businesses to alter articles of association to align the interests of (a) people, (b) the planet and (c) profit.

Answer

Justin Madders
Under section 21 of the Companies Act 2006, a company may alter its articles of association by special resolution (requiring 75% approval of its shareholders), and under section 172(2) of the Act, a company may set out a distinctive purpose that its direc...

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