Zac Goldsmith – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Zac Goldsmith on 2014-04-03.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many representations he has received relating to concerns over Grant Thornton’s handling of insolvency or bankruptcy cases since 2010.

Jenny Willott

Prior to the introduction of the Insolvency Service’s Complaints Gateway in June 2013 no central record was maintained of numbers of complaints made against individual firms.

Since June 2013 there have been 794 complaints received via the Complaints Gateway, of which 70 related to recorded complaints about insolvency practitioners from Grant Thornton in respect to formal insolvency procedures.