Accountancy Contracts

Trade and Industry written question – answered at on 12 March 2002.

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Photo of Austin Mitchell Austin Mitchell Labour, Great Grimsby

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if she will list the contracts agreed by her Department with the five largest accountancy firms since May 1997; and what was the total value of contracts with each.

Photo of Patricia Hewitt Patricia Hewitt Secretary of State, Department of Trade and Industry

Contracts agreed with Arthur Andersen were listed in my reply to Adam Price on 11 February 2002, Hansard, column 61W. Their total value was £4,917,000. Detailed information on contracts agreed with the other four largest accountancy firms is not centrally available for the earlier years and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost; but for the calendar years 2000–01, central records indicate the following numbers of contracts and total values:

£
Accountancy firms Number
Deloitte & Touche 12 6,489,547
Ernst & Young 59 1,708,722
Pricewaterhouse Coopers 33 1,597,403
KPMG 7 133,783

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