Grant Thornton audit
Case reference FOI2024/01726
Received 11 October 2024
Published 23 October 2024
Request
1. Were Grant Thornton made specifically aware of the expenditure on interim senior employees, and did they sample where the funding was sourced from in their testing?
2. Were Grant Thornton specifically asked about these contracts to Interims, which I have since identified as being funded from front line services, and whether this should have been disclosed in the public Statements of Account?
3. Did Grant Thornton include any senior management pay within their testing at all?
4. Were Grant Thornton aware that the pay of some senior officers exceeded £150,000 and by law should be published?
Response
In response to the above questions, we are not able to confirm what our external auditors were / were not aware of or the specific details of the testing undertaken.
The Code of Practice, published by the National Audit Office, sets out what local auditors of relevant local public bodies are required to do to fulfil their statutory responsibilities under the local Audit & Accountability Act 2014. Local auditors must comply with the Code of Audit Practice.
The council’s statutory accounts are published for public inspection as required under The Accounts & Audit Regulations 2015 and the Local Audit & Accountability Act 2014. For the 2023/24 accounts, the inspection period took place from 1 June 2024 to 12 July 2024 inclusive during which time any person was able to inspect the accounts and submit questions to the auditors.
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