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Mr. Austin Mitchell
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many auditors have been presented by her Department as a result of criticisms by her Department's inspectors in the last 10 years. [114909]
Miss Melanie Johnson
In relation to criticisms in reports of investigations by inspectors under sections 431, 432 and 442 of the Companies Act 1985 published since 1993, there have been six cases where auditors were specifically criticised by the inspectors:
Publication date | |
Astra Holding plc | 17 June 1993 |
The Bestwood plc/Atlanta Fund Managers Ltd. | 20 January 1994 |
Atlantic Computers plc/Atlantic Computer Systems plc | 21 July 1997 |
James Ferguson Holdings plc/Barlow Clowes Gilt Managers Ltd. | |
6 July 1995 | |
Chancery plc | 17 December 1998 |
Mirror Group Newspapers plc | 30 March 2001 |