An interesting set of questions here from Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted about a possible conflict of interest in advice to the UK Endorsement Board.
Question[s] for Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted Liberal Democrat, Life peer.
Asked 14 October 2021
Due for answer in 13 days (by 28 October 2021)
To ask Her Majesty’s Government why the UK Endorsement Board is not using in-house counsel to instruct barristers for public interest legal advice; and why they are instead using Katherine Coates.
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.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the UK Endorsement Board has sought the advice of Martin Moore QC in the course of seeking endorsement of for its accounting standards either (1) directly, or (2) indirectly through Michael Todd QC.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they will place copies of the tender documentation of the UK Endorsement Board for the procurement of legal advice and legal opinions in the Library of the House.
What could all that be about?