Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask Her Majesty's Government why the UK Endorsement Board’s analysis for the endorsement of IFRS 17 made no separate assessment of the requirement in the International Accounting Standards and European Public Limited-Liability Company (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019, SI 2019/685, regulation 7(1), which sets out the criteria for the endorsement of an accounting standard.

The UK Endorsement Board undertook a significant project to assess IFRS 17 against the adoption criteria set out in Regulation 7(1) of SI 2019/685, that must be met before an international accounting standard may be adopted for use in the UK. Results of its assessment against those criteria are set out in its Endorsement Criteria Assessment, containing sections specifically addressing each of the Regulation 7(1) adoption criteria. The Endorsement Criteria Assessment can be found on the UKEB’s website.