Local Government: Audit
(asked on 22nd March 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to review the threshold made under the Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014 below which smaller authorities are exempt from routine external audit and are instead subject to the Transparency Code for Smaller Authorities.
Answered by
Baroness Scott of Bybrook
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities)
This question was answered on 29th March 2023
The Government has committed to review the threshold for audit requirements relating to smaller authorities as part of the Redmond Review and is considering these requirements within the context of its broader programme of work on local audit.