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BRITAIN’s big four accountancy firms have been savaged by MPs who have accused them of “feasting on the carcass” of collapsed outsourcing giant Carillion and collecting more than £70 million in the process.
MPs from the business and pensions committees, who are conducting a joint inquiry into Carillion’s demise, have published a breakdown of fees collected by KPMG, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Deloitte and Ernst & Young.
It shows that the firms have pocketed a total of £71.6m in Carillion-related work since 2008, including on its pension schemes.
Outsourcing is at the heart of inequality. Only collective unity in the trade union movement can topple the Establishment’s obsession with it, says SAM GURNEY
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