§ Baroness Blatchasked Her Majesty's Government:
What powers a local authority possesses to recover audit fees and costs paid to an appointed auditor whose professional calculations of loss in surcharge proceedings brought by him against members and officers of that local authority have been discounted by a court. [HL2435]
§ Lord WhittyAudited bodies pay fees to the Audit Commission according to a scale or scales of fees set by the commission under Section 7 of the Audit Commission Act 1998. Thee are no powers for fees paid for work done to be recovered.