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MPs call for urgent reform in wake of Thomas Cook collapse

Business
5 November 2019

MPs have called for wide-ranging and urgent business reform in the wake of the Thomas Cook collapse. 

Business, energy and industrial strategy committee chair Rachel Reeves. Image: Parliament.tv

Members of the parliamentary Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy have written a letter to the secretary of state for the area, Andrea Leadsom, with a list of findings and recommendations that arose from the Cook inquiry. 

These include stronger mechanisms to “claw back” large director bonuses; binding agreements from lenders to support people made unemployed through a company’s insolvency; and greater diversity of a company’s board members. 

The report also criticised the current use of goodwill and potential conflicts of interests in the financial auditing process.