§ Mr. Tim SmithTo ask Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will place a list in the Library of the auditing arrangements for each public body.
§ Mr. Norman Lamont[holding answer 23 February 1988]: Government Departments are audited by the Comptroller and Auditor General and his counterpart in Northern Ireland. The nationalised industries are audited by commercial auditors. Local authorities are audited by the Audit Commission for Local Authorities in England and Wales, the Commission for Local Authority Accounts
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December 1983 = 100 Australian dollar/£ Finnish mark/£ Norwegian krone/£ Austrian schilling/£ 1984 January 97.6 93.1 100.2 100.3 April 96.7 95.7 97.5 95.1 July 99.3 94.6 97.9 94.9 October 91.6 92.5 97.7 94.7 1985 January 86.9 89.1 93.5 90.4 April 118.2 95.2 99.8 96.8 July 123.8 99.8 105.0 101.4 October 127.0 96.2 101.5 95.0 1986 January 127.7 91.7 97.0 87.8 April 130.1 91.3 96.7 85.9 July 150.3 91.0 101.7 82.2 October 140.3 83.1 94.8 72.4 1987 January 143.2 83.1 97.5 70.9 April 143.9 85.6 99.6 74.6 July 142.7 85.9 98.2 75.2 in Scotland and the Local Government Audit Service in Northern Ireland. For details of the audit arrangements of the health authorities, I refer my hon. Friend to the reply given to the hon. Member for Great Grimsby (Mr. Mitchell) by my hon. Friend the Member for Braintree (Mr. Newton) on 13 January at columns 330–31. Information about the audit arrangements for other public bodies is set out in column 5 of "Public Bodies 1987", a copy of which was placed in the Library on 2 December.