Companies Annual Report 2004-2005

The report is available here

The appendix Table D2 'Prosecutions in 2004-2005' is available here

Companies Annual Report 2003-2004

The report is available here

Companies Annual Report 2002-2003

The report is available here
(Erratum: Please note that in Table D2 on page 50 the column headings "Convictions Not Obtained" and "Convictions" should be transposed).

Companies Annual Report 2001-2002

The report is available here

Companies Annual Report 2000-2001

The report is available here

Deloitte Report on the Impact of the Directors Remuneration Report Regulations 2002

The report was published on 25 January 2005. To see the report click here.
 

PRE-EMPTION RIGHTS: FINAL REPORT 

A study by Paul Myners into the impact of shareholders' pre-emption rights on a public company's ability to raise new capital was published by DTI on 10 February 2005.

Final report 1.6 Mb PDF

DTI Press Notice

Responses to the Invitation to Comment

BUILDING BETTER BOARDS 

Patricia Hewitt launched “Building Better Boards”, at a Smith Institute event on 7 December 2004.  “Building Better Boards” is a best practice guide produced with business groups and offers recommendations and tools to help companies improve recruitment and performance in the boardroom.               “Building Better Boards” builds on the recommendations of Derek Higgs and Laura Tyson for more diverse and effective boardrooms. 

The new guide:

• sets out the business case for effective diversity and better practices in the boardroom;·
• cites the benefits for companies, with evidence from some of Britain’s best-known businesses and names; and,·          
• outlines Government and business-led initiatives to develop the talent of a diverse range of candidates.

DIVERSITY OF FTSE 100 DIRECTORS 

One of the recommendations of the Tyson report, published in June 2003, was that 'Research and measurement should be implemented to encourage greater board diversity'.  As a result the DTI commissioned research from the Cranfield School of Management to investigate the levels of ethnic minority directors in FTSE 100 companies.  The resultant report and its executive summary are attached below.

Executive Summary of FTSE Ethnic Index

Report on the Diversity of FTSE 100 Directors

COMPANIES ACT 1985:
MODEL 212 NOTICE

Section 212 of the Companies Act 1985 gives a public company the power to investigate the ownership of its shares. Companies do this by sending a written notice (the 212 notice) to any person or company whom they have reasonable cause to believe has, or had, an "interest" (eg. owns, controls or has certain rights over shares) in their relevant share capital at some time during the three years immediately preceding the date of issue of the 212 notice. The Companies Act does not specify a set format for such notices. However, the DTI is aware that there is a demand for some form of guidance as to what could usefully be included in these notices and has therefore produced a model 212 notice (15kb), which companies can adapt for their own purposes.

DIRECTORS’ REMUNERATION REPORT – JULY 1999

We appointed PricewaterhouseCoopers in May 1999 to monitor compliance by listed companies with the best practice framework on directors' remuneration set out in the Greenbury Code of Best Practice and the Combined Code. Report on directors' remuneration.
The Report (.pdf) was published on 19 July 1999. (related Speech)