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Mr. Austin Mitchell
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will publish a list showing the inspectors appointed by him who were partners of Ernst and Young.
Mr. Redwood
Mr. J. M. Barney and Mr. D. J. Macleod were appointed as inspectors under section 177 of the Financial Services Act 1986. Mr. Macleod was also appointed an inspector on 10 February 1987 under section 442 of the Companies Act 1985 to investigate the membership of Bremner plc. No other partners in the firms which combined to form Ernst and Young, or in that firm itself, have been appointed inspectors since 1979.