PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Audit: Reform (7 November 2023)

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the answer of 19 April 2023 to Question 180116 on Audit: Reform, how many hours officials in her Department have worked on legislative proposals on reform of audit and corporate governance since the publication of the Restoring trust in audit and corporate governance white paper, CP382.

Asked by:
Jonathan Reynolds (Labour)

The Department does not keep records of work assignment at a project level, nor on an hourly basis. The table below sets out estimates of the number of officials in the Department who were working on legislative proposals for reform of audit and associated legislative reforms of corporate governance, in September of each year since the publication of the White Paper in 2021.

September 2021	c. 21
September 2022	19
September 2023	15

Answered by:
Kevin Hollinrake (Conservative)
15 November 2023