§ 70. Mr. Fryasked the Secretary of State for the Environment, in view of the many instances of excessive spending of ratepayers' money, how many audits of local authority accounts have been completed by the District Audit Service beginning with the financial year 1973–74 and up to and including the year 1975–76; and how many statutory reports have been made in respect of 792W these accounts and for which local authorities.
§ Mr. Guy BarnettThe number of audits completed and statutory reports made by the District Audit Service are as follows:
The reports cover a wide range of subjects; by no means all of them are concerned with excessive expenditure by local authorities.
1973–74 … … … 1,353 and 447 1974–75 … … … 399 and 360 1975–76 … … … 297 and 175 Details of the authorities to whom reports have been made cannot be provided without a disproportionate expenditure of time and resources.