North Southwark Education Action Zone (Hansard, 15 February 2001)

HC Deb 15 February 2001 vol 363 cc198-9W 199W

§ Mr. Chope
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what reasons underlay the delay in presenting the North Southwark Education Action Zone account for 1998–99 to Parliament. [150350]

§ Ms Estelle Morris
[holding answer 13 February 2001]: Zone accounts are laid before Parliament by the National Audit Office (NAO) once they are satisfied that they can give a full opinion. The NAO found that North Southwark EAZ had difficulty in providing evidence to support some zone transactions and needed to strengthen financial controls. Once these issues had been successfully resolved the accounts were laid before Parliament.