Scrapping the Audit Commission is more likely to save £10m than the £50m predicted by the communities secretary, chairman Michael O'Higgins has told a group of cross party MPs.
Speaking at the Communities and Local Government select committee hearing into the future of audit and inspection, Mr O'Higgins said the commission had calculated savings of ‘up to £10m', assuming work like the watchdog's study reports were not just shunted elsewhere.
