Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment, if any, the UK Endorsement Board have made of any potential conflict of interest of instructing Martin Moore QC to work on the endorsement of accounting standards either (1) directly, or (2) indirectly.
The UK Endorsement Board is an independent, unincorporated association which will report annually on the carrying out of its functions to my Rt. Hon. Friend the Secretary of State. This report will also be laid in Parliament.
The UK Endorsement Board does not intend to seek advice from Martin Moore QC in the course of developing its endorsement assessment of international accounting standards either (1) directly, or (2) indirectly.