§ Mr. ORMSBY-GOREasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether instructions have been issued from the Treasury to the effect that members of the London Association of Accountants are no longer eligible for the post of public auditor, but that such posts in future are to be confined to chartered accountants; whether the qualifications of and examinations passed by members of the London Association of Incorporated Accountants are as high as those in the case of chartered accountants; whether any representations have been received on the matter from the London Association of Accountants; and whether a number of Fellows of the latter are at present carrying out the duties of public auditor in a satisfactory manner?
§ Mr. BALDWINThe Treasury has followed the trend of recent legislation in1980W arranging that applicants for appointment as public auditor should be limited in future to members of the Institutes of Chartered Accountants and the Society of Incorporated Accountants and Auditors, but no person already on the list has been removed because of the new Regulations. There are 35 members of the London Association of Incorporated Accountants on the present list, and five have been removed during the years 1916–1919 for unsatisfactory audit work. Representations from this Association have been placed before and considered by the Treasury.