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Association Of Chartered Certified Accountants

EDM number 685 in 1998-99, proposed by Austin Mitchell on 25/05/1999.

That this House condemns the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants for its failure to function in an open, democratic and accountable manner by not having any of its officeholders directly elected by its members, by using a balloting system which has been outlawed for trade unions, for permitting its President to cast 20 to 25 per cent. of all votes thus effectively appointing Council members, by the deliberate failure of its President to answer questions at the 1999 AGM, by removing reformers from Council and failing to explain the reasons to the AGM, for failure to have any non-white person as an officeholder even though 50 per cent. of its UK membership is non-white, by its failure to admit the public to its Council meetings even though it acts as a regulator under the Companies Act 1989 and the Insolvency Act 1986, by the failure to publicise the outcome of a disciplinary hearing against its Vice-President in its own in-house magazine, by threatening and silencing reformers and pressurising their employers and by legal threats, and for its failure to disclose the ú50,000 per annum spent by its officeholders on taking friends, spouses and partners on world travels, even though the Financial Reporting Standard 8 requires this should be disclosed; and therefore considers that an ACCA which takes so little account of the public interest is unfit to be a regulatory body and urges the Government to suspend its regulatory powers and launch an independent inquiry into its affairs.

This motion has been signed by a total of 37 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Austin Mitchell25/05/1999Great GrimsbyLabourProposed
Jim Cousins25/05/1999Newcastle upon Tyne CentralLabourSigned
Bill Michie26/05/1999Sheffield, HeeleyLabourSigned
Eric Clarke26/05/1999MidlothianLabourSigned
Bob Russell26/05/1999ColchesterLiberal DemocratSigned
Alan Simpson08/06/1999Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Vincent Cable08/06/1999TwickenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
John Austin08/06/1999Erith & ThamesmeadLabourSigned
John McWilliam09/06/1999BlaydonLabourSigned
Andrew Stunell09/06/1999Hazel GroveLiberal DemocratSigned
Lynne Jones10/06/1999Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Derek Wyatt10/06/1999Sittingbourne & SheppeyLabourSigned
John Cummings11/06/1999EasingtonLabourSigned
Lawrence Cunliffe11/06/1999LeighLabourSigned
Andrew George15/06/1999St IvesLiberal DemocratSigned
Andrew Dismore17/06/1999HendonLabourSigned
Russell Brown23/06/1999DumfriesLabourSigned
Bill Etherington30/06/1999Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
John McDonnell01/07/1999Hayes & HarlingtonLabourSigned
Donald Gorrie21/07/1999Edinburgh WestLiberal DemocratSigned
Bill Olner21/07/1999NuneatonLabourSigned
Julia Drown23/07/1999South SwindonLabourSigned
Andrew Love26/07/1999EdmontonLabour Co-operativeSigned
Frank Cook26/07/1999Stockton NorthLabourSigned
John Gunnell26/07/1999Morley & RothwellLabourSigned
Diana Organ27/07/1999Forest of DeanLabourSigned
Ian Davidson27/07/1999Glasgow, PollokLabour Co-operativeSigned
Phil Sawford19/10/1999KetteringLabourSigned
Mike Wood19/10/1999Batley & SpenLabourSigned
Paul Burstow19/10/1999Sutton & CheamLiberal DemocratSigned
Tom Brake19/10/1999Carshalton & WallingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Peter Robinson19/10/1999Belfast EastDUPSigned
Tony Benn20/10/1999ChesterfieldLabourSigned
Kelvin Hopkins21/10/1999Luton NorthLabourSigned
Maria Fyfe21/10/1999Glasgow, MaryhillLabourSigned
Brian White08/11/1999North East Milton KeynesLabourSigned
Graham StringerUnknownWithdrawn

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