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Written Question
Attorney General: Accountancy
Wednesday 14th December 2022

Asked by: Lord Cryer (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Attorney General:

To ask the Attorney General, what secondments (a) PricewaterhouseCoopers, (b) Deloitte & Touche, (c) Ernst & Young and (d) KPMG has made to the Department including predecessor Departments since 2010; for what (i) periods and (ii) tasks the secondments were made; whether secondments of staff from the Department have been made to those firms; and for what (A) periods and (B) tasks.

Answered by Michael Tomlinson

There have been no secondments, contracts, consultancies or other services placed with the accountancy firms Deloitte & Touche, Ernst & Young, KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers at the Attorney General’s Office.

Written Question
Attorney General: Accountancy
Wednesday 14th December 2022

Asked by: Lord Cryer (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Attorney General:

To ask the Attorney General, what the (a) nature and (b) value was of all contracts, consultancies or other services placed with the accountancy firms (i) Deloitte & Touche, (ii) Ernst & Young, (iii) KPMG and (iv) PricewaterhouseCoopers each year since 2010-11 by the Office.

Answered by Michael Tomlinson

There have been no secondments, contracts, consultancies or other services placed with the accountancy firms Deloitte & Touche, Ernst & Young, KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers at the Attorney General’s Office.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 14 May 2014
Deregulation Bill

"Is there not also a danger that if legislation removes health and safety cover from self-employed people, employers will have an incentive to give employees a bogus status of self-employment, regardless of whether that is appropriate?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 14 May 2014
Deregulation Bill

"What my hon. Friend says about risk is right. In Committee, we asked time and again for a definitive list. The Government kept amending the list. I do not know which version we are on now, but we are almost at the end of the parliamentary process on the Bill, …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 14 May 2014
Deregulation Bill

"My hon. Friends the Members for Derby North (Chris Williamson) and for Luton North (Kelvin Hopkins) and I served on the Committee, where this was one of the most controversial elements of the Bill. As my hon. Friend the Member for Hayes and Harlington (John McDonnell) said, the list has …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 14 May 2014
Deregulation Bill

"If I am mistaken, I apologise. I remember seeing at least two versions, but perhaps I have got that slightly wrong. Nevertheless, there is still controversy over why certain occupations are on the list and others are left off. I am concerned that the Bill is nearing the end of …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 14 May 2014
Deregulation Bill

"Perhaps I am a victim of my own fevered imagination when it comes to the list, but I thought I remembered seeing different versions. My hon. Friend is right about the list...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 14 May 2014
Deregulation Bill

"Okay, I am prepared to accept that...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 14 May 2014
Deregulation Bill

"I am grateful to my hon. Friend for raising that point. I do not remember any specific discussion about whether maritime occupations should be on the list. Perhaps that was partly because we had a separate, lengthy and passionate discussion about maritime investigations. The RMT represents not all but most …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 14 May 2014
Deregulation Bill

"I do not have the list in front of me, but I accept what my hon. Friend says. One of the things that has changed in the past few years—this has happened relatively recently—is that an awful lot of industries now have extensive groups of self-employed people. My hon. Friend …..."
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