MPs call for urgent audit action

By Mark Whitehead | 22 June 2023

MPs have called for urgent action over an ‘unacceptably high’ backlog of local government audits.

A report by the House of Commons’ Public Accounts Committee said only 12% of local government bodies received audits before the already-extended deadline to publish accounts for 2021-22.

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