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

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Callanan on 23 May (HL404), what assessment they have made of whether directors and auditors should be making “adjustments” at the time the accounts are signed, because the lack of such adjustments could hamper the determination of solvency/going concern position of a company.

The directors are responsible for signing off the accounts and making sure they comply with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006. The Companies Act requires that companies take into account the additional factors in Part 23 of the Companies Act when calculating distributable profits. This is to ensure that a company may only make distributions out of profits available for the purpose of distribution.