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Written question asked by Steve Barclay (Conservative) on Monday, 28 February 2011, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 2 March 2011. It was answered by Robert Neill (Conservative) on Wednesday, 9 March 2011 on behalf of the Department for Communities and Local Government.

External Audit Services

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what expenditure (a) his Department and (b) each public body sponsored by his Department incurred on engaging in external audit services each of the last three years; and to which service providers such payments were made in each year.
Answer

DCLG has its own internal audit service and does not routinely purchase audit services externally. However over the last three years DCLG engaged PricewaterhouseCoopers to provide interim support to internal audit and they were paid as follows:

Fiscal year £
2008-09 297,221
2009-10 326,061
2010-11 ¹163,636
Grand total 786,918
¹ Projected to end March

The contract with PwC ends this year.External audits are undertaken by the National Audit Office and are reported as a notional cost in the resource accounts as follows:

£
2008-09 427,000
2009-10 447,000
2010-11 ¹420,000
¹ Expected to be

Information on costs incurred by public bodies sponsored by the Department is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
43758; 524 c1123-4W
Session
2010-12
Subjects
Audit Department for Communities and Local Government
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
View this Written question on www.publications.parliament.uk