The Minister of State for Competitiveness, Stephen Timms, made a Written Statement to Parliament providing details of the final commencement timetable for the 2006 Act. Details of this, including a revised table of commencement dates and information about the fifth commencement order which was published on 17 December can be found at: http://www.dti.gov.uk/bbf/co-act-2006/index.html. To read ICSA's press release on this please click here

There are still a number of regulations and commencement orders that have either been made (following Parliamentary approval, where this is required) or laid before Parliament in draft. For further details of these please click here

A ministerial statement about the implementation of the Companies Act was made on 28 February 2007 by the Minister for Industry and the Regions Margaret Hodge. To read the full text click here