§ 59. Sir W. Smithersasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many Civil Departments furnished their Appropriation and Trading Accounts for 1946–47 to the Comptroller and Auditor General after 30th November, 1947; and what action he is taking to impress upon Departments the desirability of presenting such accounts by the statutory date.
§ Mr. JayFifteen Civil Departments furnished Appropriation Accounts for 1946–47 to the Comptroller and Auditor General after 30th November, 1947, and five Civil Departments furnished Trading Accounts after that date. The late rendering of Accounts was referred to in the Second Report of the Public Accounts Committee for 1947–48. The Treasury intend to impress on Departments, in circulating the Treasury Minute on that Report, the necessity of presenting Accounts by the statutory date.