Impact assessment

Local Audit and Accountability Bill: local audit impact assessment

Impact assessment on the government’s programme of reforms to local audit.

• From: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
• Published: 10 May 2013
• Last updated: 1 September 2014 — See all updates

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

Applies to England and Wales

Documents

Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014: local audit impact assessment

Ref: ISBN 9781409838739

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This impact assessment quantifies the costs and savings associated with the government’s programme of reforms to local audit set out in the Local Audit and Accountability Act. This includes abolishing Comprehensive Area Assessment, outsourcing the Audit Commission’s in-house audit practice, abolishing the Audit Commission and establishing a new decentralized local audit framework.

It incorporates the most recent cost data available from the Audit Commission, including its anticipated reductions in fee levels. As a result the impact assessment shows that government is on track to achieving savings to the taxpayer of £759 million over 5 years (2012 to 2017) and an estimated £1.3 billion (increased from £1.2 billion) over 10 years.

Published 10 May 2013
Last updated 1 September 2014 + show all updates

1. 1 September 2014

   Added updated impact assessment.

2. 10 May 2013

   First published.