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WHITEHALL

District View

Nicola Bulbeck ponders the questions being asked about life after the Audit Commission.

Wandering in the twilight of the undead of the Audit Commission, I ponder the questions being asked about life after the commission.

Will our new audit adversary assume a definite form? Cash savings and spare bodies as a result of the Pickles' stake through the heart, if not soul, of the commission are more apparent than real, since authorities which employed a room full of staff sweating blood to polish data and check the maths prior to a visitation are the stuff of figment rather than fact.

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