Fiscal devolution: audit must be ‘even more robust’ than under Audit Commission

Fiscal devolution will require local audit arrangements that are even more robust than those that existed in the era of the Audit Commission, auditor general Gareth Davies has warned.

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He told MPs that the government’s plans to devolve spending to strategic authorities meant the audit framework would need to be “quite different” to

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