NAO refuses to sign off gov accounts over ‘severe’ council audit backlogs
For the first time ever, comptroller and auditor general Gareth Davies was ‘unable to obtain sufficient, appropriate evidence upon which to form an opinion’ on the submission of the Whole of Government Accounts
The National Audit Office (NAO) has refused to sign off this year’s government accounts over “severe” backlogs in local authority audits that have resulted in missing data.