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The government is launching a consultation on wide-ranging reforms to modernise the country’s audit and corporate governance regime

• Updated: 18 March 2021

More than a third (34.3%) of FTSE 350 board positions are now held by women.

• Updated: 23 February 2021

Measures from the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act extended to relieve pressure on businesses dealing with coronavirus.

• Updated: 16 February 2021

Reforms to the Prompt Payment Code announced today, encouraging companies to stand by smaller suppliers.

• Updated: 19 January 2021

Consultation launched aimed at giving Small Business Commissioner more power to support businesses and resolve late payment issues

• Updated: 1 October 2020

Companies House will be reformed to clamp down on fraud and money laundering, with directors unable to be appointed until their identity has been verified.

• Updated: 18 September 2020

Pauline Wallace will take on the role of chair of the UK Accounting Standards Endorsement Board.

• Updated: 14 September 2020

Taking action in partnership with communities for future generations

• Updated: 10 September 2020

The Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act has received Royal Assent and came into force on 26 June 2020.

• Updated: 29 June 2020

Businesses can now digitally report energy and carbon data in the same way as financial information.

• Updated: 13 March 2020

New legislation will tackle the misuse of Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs), also known as confidentiality clauses, in the workplace – including those being used to cover up sexual harassment, racial discrimination and assaul…

• Updated: 21 July 2019

Sellafield Ltd Chief Executive Paul Foster will leave the company in January 2020.

• Updated: 11 July 2019

The British Embassy in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan is now accepting project proposals for the 2019/2020 financial year (April 2019-March 2020).

• Updated: 10 June 2019

Mike Clancy has been reappointed as member of the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas) Council.

• Updated: 9 April 2019

The rules around non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) and confidentiality clauses are set to be tightened under new legal proposals.

• Updated: 4 March 2019

New regulations come into force today to improve transparency on executive pay.

• Updated: 1 January 2019

Package of measures to increase transparency and tackle corruption unveiled today.

• Updated: 10 December 2018

Speech by BEIS Permanent Secretary Alex Chisholm at the Investment Association 'Stewardship and governance' conference.

• Updated: 22 November 2018

Figures published today in the Hampton-Alexander Review's 2018 report show a welcome increase in the number of women in FTSE 350 leadership positions.

• Updated: 13 November 2018

Six men have been sentenced for a total of just over 30 years for their part in a £17 million solar panel fraud scheme.

• Updated: 11 October 2018