Ian Kerr told the Guardian that he never gave advice or judgments to companies about whether to give a job to an individual as it was up to the firms to make the final decision. Many building firms did not wish to comment yesterday, but others did offer a reaction. [includes responses by NG Bailey, Laing O'Rourke, Morgan Est, Skanska, BAM Construct UK] [full list of companies: Amec Building, Amec Construction, Amec Facilities, Amec Industrial Division, Amec Process & Energy, Balfour Beatty, Balfour Kilpatrick, Bam Construction (HBC Construction), Bam Nuttall (Edmund Nuttall Ltd), C B & I, Cleveland Bridge UK, Costain UK, Crown House Technologies, Carillion/Tarmac Construction, Diamond M & E Services, Emcor Rail, Haden Young, Kier, Laing O'Rourke (Laing Ltd), Morgan Ashurst, Morgan Est, NG Bailey, Shepherd Engineering Services, Sias Building Services, Sir Robert McAlpine, Skanska (Kvaerner/Trafalgar House), Whessoe Oil & Gas, Vinci (Norwest Holst Group); Ex members which may no longer exist or no longer avail themselves of Kerr’s service: Amey Construction, B Sunley & Sons, Ballast (Wiltshire), G Wimpey, Dudley Bower & Co Ltd, Emcor (Drake & Scull), John Mowlem Ltd, Lovell Construction (UK), Miller Construction, Morrison Construction Group, SPIE (Matthew Hall), Taylor Woodrow Construction, Turriff Construction, Tysons Contractors, Walter Llewellyn & Sons Ltd, Willmott Dixon]