Disqualification Unit (Hansard, 10 February 1994)

§ Mr. Cousins
To ask the President of the Board of Trade how many cases have been reported to his Department's disqualification unit in each year since 1987; how many of these have been subject to full investigation; and how many have been successfully prosecuted.

Reports of misconduct made to disqualification unit Cases identified as prima facie meeting envidential criteria Number of individual directors whom directions given Number of directors against who disqualification orders were made

1987–88 3,499 n/a 251 130

1988–89 4,209 n/a 419 293

1989–90 3,444 n/a 462 288

1990–91 4,508 n/a 449 251

1991–92 6,171 906 700 326

1992–93 6,710 877 564 446

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§ Mr. Kilfoyle
To ask the President of the Board of Trade who are the members currently appointed to the Advanced Manufacturing Technology Committee.

§ Mr. McLoughlin
The current members of the Advanced Manufacturing Technology Committee are:

Mr. J. Puttick, Chairman, Warwick Manufacturing Group

Mr. A. B. M. Braithwaite OBE, The Welding Institute Professor A. de Pennington OBE, University of Leeds

Dr. F. K. Garas, Taylor Woodrow Construction Holdings Limited

Mr. P. W. Harrisson, Linread plc

Mr. N. McArthur MBE, Thurnall plc

Professor A. Muhlemann, University of Bradford

Mr. J. K. Overstall, Kewill Group

Dr. A. G. Parker, Lucas Automotive Limited

Professor A. Pugh FEng, University of Hull

Mr. D. Walker, Defence Research Agency

	Reports of misconduct made to disqualification unit	Cases identified as prima facie meeting envidential criteria	Number of individual directors whom directions given	Number of directors against who disqualification orders were made
1987–88	3,499	n/a	251	130
1988–89	4,209	n/a	419	293
1989–90	3,444	n/a	462	288
1990–91	4,508	n/a	449	251
1991–92	6,171	906	700	326
1992–93	6,710	877	564	446