REGISTERED NUMBER: |
REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS AND |
AUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS |
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2024 |
FOR |
MERCURY DESIGN & BUILD LIMITED |
REGISTERED NUMBER: |
REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS AND |
AUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS |
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2024 |
FOR |
MERCURY DESIGN & BUILD LIMITED |
MERCURY DESIGN & BUILD LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 10515344) |
CONTENTS OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS |
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2024 |
Page |
Company Information | 1 |
Report of the Directors | 2 |
Report of the Independent Auditors | 3 |
Income Statement | 6 |
Balance Sheet | 7 |
Statement of Changes in Equity | 8 |
Notes to the Financial Statements | 9 |
MERCURY DESIGN & BUILD LIMITED |
COMPANY INFORMATION |
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2024 |
DIRECTORS: |
SECRETARY: |
REGISTERED OFFICE: |
REGISTERED NUMBER: |
SENIOR STATUTORY AUDITOR: |
AUDITORS: |
Chartered Accountants |
and Statutory Auditors |
34-40 High Street |
Wanstead |
London |
E11 2RJ |
MERCURY DESIGN & BUILD LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 10515344) |
REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS |
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2024 |
The directors present their report with the financial statements of the company for the year ended 31 March 2024. |
PRINCIPAL ACTIVITY |
The principal activity of the company in the year under review was that of the development of real estate. |
GOING CONCERN |
The accounts have been prepared on a going concern basis despite the deficit in shareholders' funds. The Company is financially supported by its parent company. |
The parent company continues to give financial support to the company by injecting funds as necessary and has confirmed it will continue this support for at least 12 months from the date of approving these accounts. |
DIRECTORS |
The directors shown below have held office during the whole of the period from 1 April 2023 to the date of this report. |
Other changes in directors holding office are as follows: |
DIRECTORS' RESPONSIBILITIES STATEMENT |
The directors are responsible for preparing the Report of the Directors and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and regulations. |
Company law requires the directors to prepare financial statements for each financial year. Under that law the directors have elected to prepare the financial statements in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice (United Kingdom Accounting Standards and applicable law). Under company law the directors must not approve the financial statements unless they are satisfied that they give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the company and of the profit or loss of the company for that period. In preparing these financial statements, the directors are required to: |
- | select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently; |
- | make judgements and accounting estimates that are reasonable and prudent; |
- | prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the company will continue in business. |
The directors are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that are sufficient to show and explain the company's transactions and disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the company and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities. |
STATEMENT AS TO DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION TO AUDITORS |
So far as the directors are aware, there is no relevant audit information (as defined by Section 418 of the Companies Act 2006) of which the company's auditors are unaware, and each director has taken all the steps that he ought to have taken as a director in order to make himself aware of any relevant audit information and to establish that the company's auditors are aware of that information. |
AUDITORS |
The auditors, THP Limited, will be proposed for re-appointment at the forthcoming Annual General Meeting. |
This report has been prepared in accordance with the provisions of Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies. |
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD: |
REPORT OF THE INDEPENDENT AUDITORS TO THE MEMBERS OF |
MERCURY DESIGN & BUILD LIMITED |
Opinion |
We have audited the financial statements of Mercury Design & Build Limited (the 'company') for the year ended 31 March 2024 which comprise the Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Statement of Changes in Equity and Notes to the Financial Statements, including a summary of significant accounting policies. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards, including Financial Reporting Standard 102 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland' (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice). |
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In our opinion the financial statements: |
- | give a true and fair view of the state of the company's affairs as at 31 March 2024 and of its loss for the year then ended; |
- | have been properly prepared in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice; and |
- | have been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006. |
Basis for opinion |
We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK) (ISAs (UK)) and applicable law. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditors' responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements section of our report. We are independent of the company in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements in the UK, including the FRC's Ethical Standard, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion. |
Conclusions relating to going concern |
In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the directors' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate. |
Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue. |
Our responsibilities and the responsibilities of the directors with respect to going concern are described in the relevant sections of this report. |
Other information |
The directors are responsible for the other information. The other information comprises the information in the Report of the Directors, but does not include the financial statements and our Report of the Auditors thereon. |
Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and, except to the extent otherwise explicitly stated in our report, we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon. |
In connection with our audit of the financial statements, our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If we identify such material inconsistencies or apparent material misstatements, we are required to determine whether this gives rise to a material misstatement in the financial statements themselves. If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact. We have nothing to report in this regard. |
Opinions on other matters prescribed by the Companies Act 2006 |
In our opinion, based on the work undertaken in the course of the audit: |
- | the information given in the Report of the Directors for the financial year for which the financial statements are prepared is consistent with the financial statements; and |
- | the Report of the Directors has been prepared in accordance with applicable legal requirements. |
Matters on which we are required to report by exception |
In the light of the knowledge and understanding of the company and its environment obtained in the course of the audit, we have not identified material misstatements in the Report of the Directors. |
We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters where the Companies Act 2006 requires us to report to you if, in our opinion: |
- | adequate accounting records have not been kept, or returns adequate for our audit have not been received from branches not visited by us; or |
- | the financial statements are not in agreement with the accounting records and returns; or |
- | certain disclosures of directors' remuneration specified by law are not made; or |
- | we have not received all the information and explanations we require for our audit; or |
- | the directors were not entitled to prepare the financial statements in accordance with the small companies regime and take advantage of the small companies' exemption from the requirement to prepare a Strategic Report or in preparing the Report of the Directors. |
REPORT OF THE INDEPENDENT AUDITORS TO THE MEMBERS OF |
MERCURY DESIGN & BUILD LIMITED |
Responsibilities of directors |
As explained more fully in the Directors' Responsibilities Statement set out on page two, the directors are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view, and for such internal control as the directors determine necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error. |
In preparing the financial statements, the directors are responsible for assessing the company's ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the directors either intend to liquidate the company or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so. |
Auditors' responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements |
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue a Report of the Auditors that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with ISAs (UK) will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financial statements. |
The extent to which the audit was considered capable of detecting irregularities including fraud |
Our approach to identifying and assessing the risks of material misstatement in respect of irregularities, including fraud and non-compliance with laws and regulations, was as follows: |
- the engagement partner ensured that the engagement team collectively had the appropriate competence, capabilities and skills to identify or recognise non-compliance with applicable laws and regulations; |
- we identified the laws and regulations applicable to the company through discussions with directors and other management, and from our commercial knowledge and experience of the sector in which the company operates; |
- we focused on specific laws and regulations which we considered may have a direct material effect on the financial statements or the operations of the company, including the Companies Act 2006, taxation legislation and data protection, anti-bribery, employment, planning regulations, environmental and health and safety legislation; |
- we assessed the extent of compliance with the laws and regulations identified above through making enquiries of management and inspecting legal correspondence; and |
- identified laws and regulations were communicated within the audit team regularly and the team remained alert to instances of non-compliance throughout the audit. |
We assessed the susceptibility of the company's financial statements to material misstatement, including obtaining an understanding of how fraud might occur, by: |
- making enquiries of management as to where they considered there was susceptibility to fraud, their knowledge of actual, suspected and alleged fraud; and |
- considering the internal controls in place to mitigate risks of fraud and non-compliance with laws and regulations. |
To address the risk of fraud through management bias and override of controls, we: |
- performed analytical procedures to identify any unusual or unexpected relationships; |
- tested journal entries to identify unusual transactions; |
- assessed whether judgements and assumptions made in determining the accounting estimates were indicative of potential bias; and |
- investigated the rationale behind significant or unusual transactions. |
In response to the risk of irregularities and non-compliance with laws and regulations, we designed procedures which included, but were not limited to: |
- agreeing financial statement disclosures to underlying supporting documentation; |
- enquiring of management as to actual and potential litigation and claims; and |
- reviewing correspondence with HMRC and any other relevant regulators as required. |
There are inherent limitations in our audit procedures described above. The more removed that laws and regulations are from financial transactions, the less likely it is that we would become aware of non-compliance. Auditing standards also limit the audit procedures required to identify non-compliance with laws and regulations to enquiry of the directors and other management and the inspection of regulatory and legal correspondence, if any. |
Material misstatements that arise due to fraud can be harder to detect than those that arise from error as they may involve deliberate concealment or collusion. |
A further description of our responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements is located on the Financial Reporting Council's website at www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities. This description forms part of our Report of the Auditors. |
REPORT OF THE INDEPENDENT AUDITORS TO THE MEMBERS OF |
MERCURY DESIGN & BUILD LIMITED |
Use of our report |
This report is made solely to the company's members, as a body, in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 16 of the Companies Act 2006. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the company's members those matters we are required to state to them in a Report of the Auditors and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the company and the company's members as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed. |
for and on behalf of |
Chartered Accountants |
and Statutory Auditors |
34-40 High Street |
Wanstead |
London |
E11 2RJ |
MERCURY DESIGN & BUILD LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 10515344) |
INCOME STATEMENT |
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2024 |
2024 | 2023 |
Notes | £ | £ |
TURNOVER | 3 |
Cost of sales |
GROSS PROFIT |
Administrative expenses |
OPERATING LOSS and |
LOSS BEFORE TAXATION | ( |
) | ( |
) |
Tax on loss | 5 |
LOSS FOR THE FINANCIAL YEAR | ( |
) | ( |
) |
MERCURY DESIGN & BUILD LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 10515344) |
BALANCE SHEET |
31 MARCH 2024 |
2024 | 2023 |
Notes | £ | £ |
CURRENT ASSETS |
Debtors | 6 |
Cash at bank |
CREDITORS |
Amounts falling due within one year | 7 |
NET CURRENT LIABILITIES | ( |
) | ( |
) |
TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES |
( |
) |
( |
) |
CAPITAL AND RESERVES |
Called up share capital | 8 |
Retained earnings | ( |
) | ( |
) |
SHAREHOLDERS' FUNDS | ( |
) | ( |
) |
The financial statements were approved by the Board of Directors and authorised for issue on |
MERCURY DESIGN & BUILD LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 10515344) |
STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN EQUITY |
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2024 |
Called up |
share | Retained | Total |
capital | earnings | equity |
£ | £ | £ |
Balance at 1 April 2022 |
Changes in equity |
Dividends | - | ( |
) | ( |
) |
Total comprehensive income | - | ( |
) | ( |
) |
Balance at 31 March 2023 | ( |
) | ( |
) |
Changes in equity |
Total comprehensive income | - | ( |
) | ( |
) |
Balance at 31 March 2024 | ( |
) | ( |
) |
MERCURY DESIGN & BUILD LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 10515344) |
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS |
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2024 |
1. | STATUTORY INFORMATION |
Mercury Design & Build Limited is a |
The presentation currency of the financial statements is the Pound Sterling (£). |
2. | ACCOUNTING POLICIES |
Basis of preparing the financial statements and going concern |
Going concern |
The accounts have been prepared on a going concern basis despite the deficit in shareholders' funds. The Company is financially supported by its parent company. |
The parent company continues to give financial support to the company by injecting funds as necessary and has confirmed it will continue this support for at least 12 months from the date of approving these accounts. |
Related party exemption |
The company has taken advantage of exemption, under the terms of Financial Reporting Standard 102 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland', not to disclose related party transactions with wholly owned subsidiaries within the group. |
Revenue recognition |
Revenue is measured at the fair value of the consideration received or receivable and represents the amount receivable for Design & Build and consultancy services supplied, net of returns, discounts and value added taxes. |
Revenue is recognised in the accounting period in which the services were rendered. |
Taxation |
Taxation for the year comprises current tax. Tax is recognised in the Income Statement, except to the extent that it relates to items recognised in other comprehensive income or directly in equity. |
Current taxation assets and liabilities are not discounted. |
Current tax is recognised at the amount of tax payable using the tax rates and laws that have been enacted or substantively enacted by the balance sheet date. |
3. | TURNOVER |
The turnover and loss before taxation are attributable to the one principal activity of the company. |
An analysis of turnover by class of business for the year ended 31 March 2024 is given below: |
£ |
This analysis is not considered to be applicable to the year ended 31 March 2023. |
Consultancy fees relate to charges made to the ultimate parent entity, The London Borough of Havering, for work done in relation to their land and property. The related costs are included in cost of sales. |
4. | EMPLOYEES AND DIRECTORS |
The average number of employees during the year was NIL (2023 - NIL). |
The company does not employee staff and work is undertaken by the parent company staff, for which an appropriate charge is made at a commercial rate. |
MERCURY DESIGN & BUILD LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 10515344) |
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - continued |
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2024 |
5. | TAXATION |
Analysis of the tax charge |
No liability to UK corporation tax arose for the year ended 31 March 2024 nor for the year ended 31 March 2023. |
Factors that may affect future tax charges |
The company has tax losses of £42,400 (2023: £31,481) available to carry forward and utilise against future trading profits. |
A deferred tax asset of £10,600 has not been reflected in the accounts due to doubts about its recoverability in the short term. |
6. | DEBTORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR |
2024 | 2023 |
£ | £ |
VAT |
Prepayments and accrued income |
7. | CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR |
2024 | 2023 |
£ | £ |
Trade creditors |
Amounts owed to group undertakings |
Accruals and deferred income |
8. | CALLED UP SHARE CAPITAL |
Allotted, issued and fully paid: |
Number: | Class: | Nominal | 2024 | 2023 |
value: | £ | £ |
Ordinary | £1 | 100 | 100 |
9. | ULTIMATE CONTROLLING PARTY |
The company is a subsidiary of Mercury Land Holdings Limited which is itself owned by The London Borough of Havering. The registered office of Mercury Land Holdings Limited is the same as the company's registered office. |
The consolidated accounts of Mercury Land Holdings Limited are available to the public and may be obtained from Companies House. |
The ultimate parent undertaking and ultimate controlling entity is considered to be The London Borough of Havering. Group financial statements can be obtained from: |
The London Borough of Havering |
Town Hall |
Main Road |
Romford |
RM1 3BD |