26. To ask the Chairman of the Public Accounts Commission what recent reports the Commission has considered from the appointed auditor of the National Audit Office; and if he will make a statement. (144686)

The Public Accounts Commission considers each year, usually in July, the auditors’ report on the National Audit Office’s annual resource account and on the NAO’s statement on the financial impact of its work. It also considers at the same time the auditors’ annual value for money examination of an aspect of the Office’s operations. This was last done in July 2006. The Commission expects to receive the next set of reports from the auditors in July this year.