Current Financial Information

Accounts

Statement of Accounts 2022/23 & 2023/24

The Accounts and Audit Regulations 2015, as recently amended, require local bodies to publish audited accounts (specifically, their accountability statements, defined in regulation 9A(9), which includes the audit opinion) by statutory backstop dates. To help clear the backlog, the Regulations include a backstop of 13 December 2024 for financial years up-to-and-including 2022/23. Where auditors have been unable to complete audits, they will issue a disclaimed or modified audit opinion.
The Accounts and Audit (England) Regulations 2015, as recently amended, require the council to publish the unaudited Statement of Accounts for the financial year ending 31st March 2024 by the 17th January 2025.

However, the impact of the 2021/2022 & 2022/23 accounts not being signed off has created challenges that may affect the ability to meet this deadline. The Section 151 Officer must consider whether there is sufficient information available to ensure the Statement of Accounts are true and fair and free from material misstatement.

Work is in progress to consolidate the draft accounts for 2023/24 with an anticipated completion by January 2025, following which the period for the exercise of public inspection will commence.
A further notice will be published in due course setting out the public inspection period as soon as the draft 2023/24 Statement of Accounts has been finalised.