Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many civil servants worked on legislative proposals relating to audit reform in each of the last five years.
The table below gives the number of officials in the Department working on legislative proposals relating to reform of audit and associated legislative reforms of corporate governance, in September of each of the last five years. Figures for 2019-21 are estimates based on information readily available.
September 2019 | c. 20 |
September 2020 | c. 15 |
September 2021 | c. 21 |
September 2022 | 19 |
September 2023 | 15 |