Although the government cancelled the requirement, resilience disclosures ‘cannot be wasted effort’, says senior auditco chair.

Dobson recently stepped down as chair of Schroders, and will take over the chair role at Berkeley Group from Glyn Barker in September.

The ex-editor of the BBC Radio 4 Today programme will join the board as a non-executive director at the end of this month.

The Investment Association has written warning letters to 32 “repeat offender” companies who saw revolts over the same issues for two years running.

Annual index reveals that the retailing giant is trailing the rest of the FTSE100 when it comes to governance, while audit and risk (external accountability) emerge as the most important factors in measuring governance performance.