My response- Morning Brian Not sure how you can on behalf of the Audit Commission can act in an impartial manner when the Audit Commission lost £10M in the same debacle ? The Finance Department of North Somerset District Council have been kind enough to allow us to make our own submission to the Members meeting alongside their own report on October 28th, copy attached. You will see that we h...

It turns out that the Audit Commission, the quango charged with ensuring that public bodies deliver value for money, had £10 million in Icelandic accounts. What a perfect illustration of how modern Britain works. Quangos are not just undemocratic; they are useless. The utilitarian case against them is every bit as convincing as the constitutional. The Audit Commission has always been incompa...

The assessment of value for money in local government and health, currently run by the Audit Commission, is to be handed to the National Audit Office.

The Audit Commission, the government body which audits the spending of local government and the NHS, has been accused of profligacy by the government and told it is going to be abolished.

Panorama really hits the nail on the head: The much bigger question raised by the Commission’s report, however, is whether it is, in fact, capable of properly regulating a charity operating somewhere like Gaza and the West Bank. … In paragraph 60 of its report, the Commission acknowledged that the material presented to it “seemed to indicate that

Scoring the Audit Commission As we've blogged many times, the £200m pa Audit Commission is a complete and utter waste of taxpayers' money (eg see here and here). Supposedly, its job is to scrutinise local councils, NHS hospitals, and other local public sector bodies, and point out where they're wasting our cash. Which task it conducts through a vast array of detailed analyses ...

Jack Dromey MP, Labour's Shadow Local Government Minister, responding to the Government's announcement that the functions of the Audit Commission will be outsourced to the private sector from 2012/13,said:

The Commission as recently made public its report on transparency in 2007. You can download the document - COM (2008) 630 final - here. The report is a valuable overview of all the activities of the Commission in the field...

'Valueformoney' quangos like the Audit Commission and the National Audit Office should be scrapped and replaced by a single body which just measures public service performance a report says today.

Although the majority of NHS hospital and primary care trusts are improving in terms of financial management, 20 have been found to be falling below minimum government standards, the Audit Commission has said.