To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of amending company law to move from shareholder primacy towards a stakeholder-governance model.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of amending company law to move from shareholder primacy towards a stakeholder-governance model.

My Lords, we will support both of these instruments, and I will be brief. The first instrument is a straightforward and necessary increase in the disclosure powers of Companies House and, as the Minister has made clear, the SI extends disclosure powers to cover non-public organisations and specifies to whom...

My Lords, we will support both of these instruments, and I will be brief. The first instrument is a straightforward and necessary increase in the disclosure powers of Companies House and, as the Minister has made clear, the SI extends disclosure powers to cover non-public organisations and specifies to whom...

My Lords, I apologise for missing the first SI. I meant no discourtesy; it was an administrative error entirely of my own making, and I particularly apologise to the noble Lord, Lord Leong. However, I would have welcomed the regulations because, as Conservatives, we believe in good governance, personal responsibility...

My Lords, I apologise for missing the first SI. I meant no discourtesy; it was an administrative error entirely of my own making, and I particularly apologise to the noble Lord, Lord Leong. However, I would have welcomed the regulations because, as Conservatives, we believe in good governance, personal responsibility...

My Lords, in speaking to the information-sharing regulations, I shall also speak to the Companies and Limited Liability Partnerships (Protection and Disclosure of Information and

Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2024. These regulations are part of a series of statutory instruments designed to implement the reforms introduced by the Economic Crime and...

My Lords, in speaking to the information-sharing regulations, I shall also speak to the Companies and Limited Liability Partnerships (Protection and Disclosure of Information and

Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2024. These regulations are part of a series of statutory instruments designed to implement the reforms introduced by the Economic Crime and...

My Lords, I am very grateful for all contributions and I thank especially the noble Lord, Lord Sharpe, for supporting these regulations. As he knows, the work was undertaken by the previous Government and we have made it a legal entity and brought forward the power to implement the legislation....

My Lords, I am very grateful for all contributions and I thank especially the noble Lord, Lord Sharpe, for supporting these regulations. As he knows, the work was undertaken by the previous Government and we have made it a legal entity and brought forward the power to implement the legislation....

Lords motion to consider. Agreed to on question.

Lords motion to consider. Agreed to on question.

Lords motion to consider. Agreed to on question.

Lords motion to consider. Agreed to on question.

My Lords, I beg to move that the Committee also consider the draft Limited Liability Partnerships (Application of Company Law) Regulations 2024, the draft Service Address (Rectification of Register) Regulations 2024 and the draft Principal Office Address (Rectification of Register) Regulations 2024, which were all laid before the House on...

My Lords, I beg to move that the Committee also consider the draft Limited Liability Partnerships (Application of Company Law) Regulations 2024, the draft Service Address (Rectification of Register) Regulations 2024 and the draft Principal Office Address (Rectification of Register) Regulations 2024, which were all laid before the House on...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for setting out clearly and crisply the details of the four sets of regulations. I declare my interests as set out in the register. It is certainly not my aim to do otherwise than to support these regulations, which are consequential from the Economic...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for setting out clearly and crisply the details of the four sets of regulations. I declare my interests as set out in the register. It is certainly not my aim to do otherwise than to support these regulations, which are consequential from the Economic...

My Lords, it was good to hear that Companies House is making such good progress. I wonder if it might make sense for the Minister to arrange an update session at some point with Companies House for interested Peers, as we had during the process of the Economic Crime and...

My Lords, it was good to hear that Companies House is making such good progress. I wonder if it might make sense for the Minister to arrange an update session at some point with Companies House for interested Peers, as we had during the process of the Economic Crime and...

My Lords, it is pleasure to follow the insights of the noble Lord, Lord Vaux. I will speak to the second SI, the Limited Liability Partnerships (Application of Company Law) Regulations 2024. I broadly welcome the thrust of the proposals but I have a number of questions; I hope that...

My Lords, it is pleasure to follow the insights of the noble Lord, Lord Vaux. I will speak to the second SI, the Limited Liability Partnerships (Application of Company Law) Regulations 2024. I broadly welcome the thrust of the proposals but I have a number of questions; I hope that...

My Lords, as someone who has spent a lot of his professional life working on annual reports, I have often had questions about GAAP, but the Minister will be pleased to know that I will not ask them today.

The four SIs before us are to be welcomed. They are steps...

My Lords, as someone who has spent a lot of his professional life working on annual reports, I have often had questions about GAAP, but the Minister will be pleased to know that I will not ask them today.

The four SIs before us are to be welcomed. They are steps...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for setting out these regulations and everyone who has spoken in this short debate. I will take these instruments one at a time.

Under the current system, criminals can—often by using data unwittingly shared or stolen and for sale on the dark web—fraudulently register an...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for setting out these regulations and everyone who has spoken in this short debate. I will take these instruments one at a time.

Under the current system, criminals can—often by using data unwittingly shared or stolen and for sale on the dark web—fraudulently register an...

As always, I thank noble Lords for a very powerful and constructive debate around this essential legislation. I genuinely think it will make an enormous difference to the quality of Companies House activities and of our business activities, reducing crime in a magnitudinous way and making the data that companies...

As always, I thank noble Lords for a very powerful and constructive debate around this essential legislation. I genuinely think it will make an enormous difference to the quality of Companies House activities and of our business activities, reducing crime in a magnitudinous way and making the data that companies...

On chronology, am I right in thinking that there is a commencement statutory instrument that needs to be brought forward for the overall Bill? When might we see that being tabled?

On chronology, am I right in thinking that there is a commencement statutory instrument that needs to be brought forward for the overall Bill? When might we see that being tabled?

That will happen next week, I am told. I look behind me hopefully on questions like that, but we will do that next week and I hope we stick to this timetable. As I have said, various SIs relating to fees and so on are being laid in the other...

That will happen next week, I am told. I look behind me hopefully on questions like that, but we will do that next week and I hope we stick to this timetable. As I have said, various SIs relating to fees and so on are being laid in the other...

My Right Honourable friend the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Kwasi Kwarteng has today made the following statement:

Today the Government is publishing its ambitious plans to strengthen the UK’s audit, company reporting and corporate governance framework, “Restoring trust in audit and corporate governance”, which I will...

My Right Honourable friend the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Kwasi Kwarteng has today made the following statement:

Today the Government is publishing its ambitious plans to strengthen the UK’s audit, company reporting and corporate governance framework, “Restoring trust in audit and corporate governance”, which I will...