Audit of Accounts 2010-2011 - Public AccessThe Audit Commission Act 1998 and the Accounts and Audit Regulations 2011 allow electors and other members of the public to inspect the Council's accounts, to ask questions of the Council's auditor and to object to the accounts. Set out below is information about how these rights can be exercised with respect to the accounts for 2010/11 The Council's accounts are subject to external audit by Grant Thornton UK LLP, Grant Thornton House, 4th Floor, Melton Street, Euston Square, London NW1 2EP. Members of the public and local government electors have certain rights in the audit process: 1. From 1 August 2011 to 26 August 2011 between 9am and 5pm any person may inspect the accounts of the Council for the year ended 31 March 2011 and related documents (comprising books, deeds, contracts, bills, vouchers and receipts) at the address given below. They may also make copies of the accounts and documents. 2. In addition to the statutory rights to inspect and ask questions on the accounts, officers of the Council will be available to respond to questions on the accounts between 9am and 5pm on Wednesday 24 August 2011 at the address shown below. If questions can be resolved by this process then it will potentially reduce audit time and hence costs to the taxpayer. Members of the public or local electors who take up this opportunity but are not satisfied by the answers they receive will still be able to exercise their statutory rights of access to the auditor as set out below. 3. From 10am on Tuesday 30 August 2011 until the conclusion of the audit process, a local government elector for the area of the Council, or his/her representative, may ask the auditor questions about the accounts. Please contact the auditor at the address given above to make arrangements to ask any questions. The auditor will be available to discuss questions in person on Tuesday 30 August 2011 at the address given below. 4. From 10am on 30 August 2011 until the conclusion of the audit process, a local government elector for the area of the Council, or his/her representative, may object to the Council's accounts. The grounds for objection are set out in section 15 of the Act and relate to unlawful expenditure, failure to account for income and matters that the auditor may regard as one requiring a public interest report. Written notice of a proposed objection and the grounds on which it is made must be sent the auditor at the address given above and copied to the Council's Director of Internal Services at the address given below. S Chancellor The pre-audit accounts can also be viewed electronically below  Downloads |
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