Carillion

KPMG has been singled out for heavy criticism from the accounting watchdog in its annual review of the major auditing firms.

Carillion was recruiting workers from Portugal and Greece to plug skills gaps on the troubled Aberdeen bypass project before the company went into liquidation in January.

Subcontractors wrote off around £2.8bn in bad debt last year, according to research by Bibby Financial Services (BFS).

Former Carillion chief operating officer Andy Jones has joined Mace as part of a management overhaul of the contractor’s construction business.

Vinci has taken on Carillion’s facilities management service contract for the London Overground network.

The banks providing the funding for the £350m Midland Metropolitan Hospital being built by Carillion prior to its collapse have pulled out of the project.

Carillion asked the government for protection from regulators and to block customers from terminating contracts two weeks before its collapse, according to information released by the National Audit Office.