The Directors are responsible for preparing the Annual Report and the Group and Parent Company financial statements, in accordance with applicable law and regulations.

Company law requires the Directors to prepare Group and Parent Company financial statements for each financial year. Under that law the Directors are required to prepare the Group financial statements in accordance with IFRSs as adopted by the EU and applicable law and have elected to prepare the Parent Company financial statements in accordance with UK Accounting Standards and applicable law (UK Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

The Parent Company financial statements are required by law to give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Group and Parent Company. In preparing each of the Group and Parent Company financial statements, the Directors are required to

• select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently
• make judgments and estimates that are reasonable and prudent
• for the Group financial statements, state whether they have been prepared in accordance with IFRS as adopted by the EU
• for the Parent Company financial statements, state whether applicable UK Accounting Standards have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the Parent Company financial statements
• prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the Group and the Parent Company will continue in business.

The Directors are responsible for keeping proper accounting records that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the Parent Company and enable them to ensure that its financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They have general responsibility for taking such steps as are reasonably open to them to safeguard the assets of the Group and to prevent and detect fraud and other irregularities.

Under applicable law and regulations, the Directors are also responsible for preparing a Directors’ Report, Directors’ Remuneration Report and Corporate Governance Statement that comply with that law and those regulations.

The Directors are responsible for the maintenance and integrity of the corporate and financial information included on the Company’s website. Legislation in the UK governing the preparation and dissemination of financial statements may differ from legislation in other jurisdictions.

Directors’ responsibility statement

Each of the Directors of Carillion plc, whose names and functions are set out in the Board of Directors, confirms that to the best of his or her knowledge

• the financial statements, prepared in accordance with the applicable set of accounting standards and contained in this 2009 Annual Report and Accounts give a true and fair view of the assets, liabilities, financial position and profit of Carillion plc and the Carillion Group taken as a whole; and
• the business review, contained in the Directors’ Report and the operating and financial review section in this 2009 Annual Report and Accounts, includes a fair review of the development and performance of the business and the position of Carillion plc and the Carillion Group taken as a whole, together with principal risks and uncertainties they face.

Disclosure of information to auditors

The Directors of Carillion plc confirm that at the date of this statement, and as far as they are individually aware, the Company’s auditors are aware of all relevant audit information and each Director has taken all reasonable steps to make himself or herself aware of relevant audit information and to establish that the Company’s auditors are aware of that information.

Approved by order of the Board

Richard Adam FCA
Group Finance Director
3 March 2010