Council audit failures hit Government accounts

By Dan Peters | 14 October 2022

Failures in the local audit market in England and Wales mean central Government has ‘poorer quality’ oversight data, MPs have said.

The influential House of Commons’ Public Accounts Committee said the failures meant the 2019-20 whole of Government accounts, which were released more than two years after the year-end, were ‘increasingly unreliable and complete’.

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