| Heading: |
Local Government: Audit |
| Question ID: |
1809943 |
| UIN: |
57946 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-05 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5322 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Mr Will Forster
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| Asking Member handle: |
WillForster
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@WillForster
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to improve future auditing arrangements for local authorities. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-12 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4569 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Jim McMahon
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| Answering Member handle: |
JimfromOldham
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@JimfromOldham
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Correcting Member display name: |
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| Answer text: |
This government has implemented a number of measures to improve auditing arrangements for local bodies, including the introduction of statutory backstop dates for the publication of audited accounts. Two of these dates have now passed. As a result, the va... |
| Original answer text: |
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| Comparable answer text: |
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| Answering body ID: |
7 |
| Answering body name: |
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government |
| Tweeted: |
true |