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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer of 23 November 2023 to Question 1227 on Local Government Finance: Audit, how many new professionals have qualified to audit local authority accounts from the Chartered Institute of Public Accountancy; and how that figure compares with expectations for 2024.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1715356", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many councils had a completed audit on time for the financial year 2023-2024.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the current backlog in local authority audits; and what plans they have to deliver all outstanding audit opinions by their proposed deadline of 30 September.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4176", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lord Shipley"}
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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1683132", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1683132/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The following table has been drawn from publicly available data. Officials have taken \u201cminded to notices\u201d to mean seeking representations on using best value powers from the Local Government Act 1999 to issue directions to a council that the Secretary of State considers is failing its duty of best value. Note that the table includes extensions and reductions to existing notices as well as new interventions and therefore there is some \u2018double counting\u2019.<\/p><p> <\/p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> <\/p><\/td><td><p>Best Value Inspection<\/p><\/td><td><p>Sought representations on intervening using Best Value powers<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p>2010<\/p><\/td><td><p>0<\/p><\/td><td><p>1<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p>2011<\/p><\/td><td><p>0<\/p><\/td><td><p>0<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p>2012<\/p><\/td><td><p>0<\/p><\/td><td><p>0<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p>2013<\/p><\/td><td><p>0<\/p><\/td><td><p>0<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p>2014<\/p><\/td><td><p>2<\/p><\/td><td><p>1<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p>2015<\/p><\/td><td><p>0<\/p><\/td><td><p>2<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p>2016<\/p><\/td><td><p>0<\/p><\/td><td><p>2<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p>2017<\/p><\/td><td><p>0<\/p><\/td><td><p>3<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p>2018<\/p><\/td><td><p>1<\/p><\/td><td><p>2<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p>2019<\/p><\/td><td><p>0<\/p><\/td><td><p>0<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p>2020<\/p><\/td><td><p>0<\/p><\/td><td><p>0<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p>2021<\/p><\/td><td><p>1<\/p><\/td><td><p>2<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p>2022<\/p><\/td><td><p> <\/p><\/td><td><p>4<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p>2023<\/p><\/td><td><p>1<\/p><\/td><td><p>5<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p>2024<\/p><\/td><td><p>0<\/p><\/td><td><p>0<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>"}
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      , "date" : {"_value" : "2024-01-17", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many best value inspections have been carried out in each year since 2010; and how many minded to notices have been issued in that period.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4569", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Jim McMahon"}
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      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1682599/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The Department working with system partners has developed proposals to tackle the exceptional circumstance of the current backlog and ensure a return to timely delivery of high-quality financial reporting and external audit in local bodies.<\/p><p>This has been detailed work, balancing various imperatives across the system. Having thoroughly tested the options, I recently wrote to the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee and confirmed that the Department, supported by the Financial Reporting Council, and alongside the National Audit Office, will launch consultations on these proposals in the coming weeks. The solution on the table has the agreement of all system partners and is the best proposal to clear the backlog and over time, return to high quality assurance.<\/p><p>Our proposals will include an initial statutory backstop date of 30 September 2024 for local authorities and auditors to publish their audited financial accounts for all outstanding local audits in England up to and including the financial year 2022-23. While these consultations take place, preparers and auditors should continue undertaking existing work to produce and audit local authority financial statements to ensure the system is in the best place possible to implement any final package of measures.<\/p>"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what progress his Department has made on clearing the backlog of local audits in England since the 2015-16 financial year.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4787", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for James Wild"}
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      , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "James Wild"}
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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1667997", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1667997/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The Government is continuing to engage across the local audit sector, including local authorities on the proposals set out in the system wide statement published in July. Further details will be issued in due course.<\/p>"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he is taking to reduce backlogs of audit opinions for local government bodies.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4603", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill"}
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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1660223", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1660223/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The Government is continuing to engage across the local audit sector, including local authorities. Further details which will be issued in due course.<\/p>"}
        , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4652", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lee Rowley"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to the correspondence by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Local Government and Building Safety to local authority Chief Executives on local audits in England, dated 18 July 2023, whether he intends to produce guidance for councils on reducing the backlog of local authority audits.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4769", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Daisy Cooper"}
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      , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Daisy Cooper"}
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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1659774", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1659774/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The challenges facing local audit are complex and require action from organisations across the system. We have worked with key partners to implement the majority of Redmond's recommendations.<\/p><p>We are continuing to deliver reform in this area, including developing the proposals set out in the cross-system statement on local audit delays published in July, and are working with the FRC as it prepares to take on its new role as system leader for local audit.<\/p><p>Local authorities' websites show whether statement of accounts have been audited.<\/p><p>More generally, as you know, the Government is establishing the Office for Local Government (Oflog) so as to improve the accountability for performance across the local government sector, including overspending. Lord Amyas Morse, former Comptroller &amp; Auditor General of the NAO, has been announced as Oflog\u2019s interim Chair.<\/p>"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many and what proportion of local authorities (a) failed to meet the deadline of 30 September 2022 and (b) were still due to provide audited accounts for financial year 2021-22 as of 1 September 2023.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4934", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Helen Morgan"}
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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1606572", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities"}
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