{"id":32979,"date":"2016-04-03T09:56:01","date_gmt":"2016-04-03T08:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=32979"},"modified":"2016-04-03T09:56:21","modified_gmt":"2016-04-03T08:56:21","slug":"kpmg-with-a-conflict-of-interest-surely-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2016\/04\/03\/kpmg-with-a-conflict-of-interest-surely-not\/","title":{"rendered":"KPMG with a conflict of interest? Surely not?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/edition\/news\/minister-caughtministrys-auditors-in-25m-conflict-of-interest-row-nllrhwjrt\" target=\"_blank\">Sunday Times reports <\/a>this morning that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An international consulting firm won or managed foreign aid contracts worth more than \u00a325m at the Department for International Development (DfID) at the same time as it was paid millions of pounds to scrutinise the department\u2019s spending.<\/p>\n<p>KPMG led a consortium that received \u00a310m in the four years to July 2015 to ensure that UK overseas aid was spent effectively.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As they explain:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI), the body that scrutinises the UK\u2019s foreign aid, appointed KPMG as the leader of a consortium paid \u00a310m between May 2011 and July 2015 to help it hold the DfID to account. KPMG received a large share of the fee.<\/p>\n<p>The ICAI and the DfID said measures were in place when KPMG won the contract to ensure there was no conflict of interest.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I note the reassurance, but this does not pass a smell test.<\/p>\n<p>Again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sunday Times reports this morning that: An international consulting firm won or managed foreign aid contracts worth more than \u00a325m at the Department for<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2016\/04\/03\/kpmg-with-a-conflict-of-interest-surely-not\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kpmg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}