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Local Government: Standards

Volume 492: debated on Tuesday 5 May 2009

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Mr. Keith Simpson

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer of 27 April 2009, Official Report, column 877W, on corporate improvement boards, what Audit Commission Use of Resources score each local authority received in (a) 2006, (b) 2007 and (c) 2008; which local authorities have had their annual accounts qualified either in whole or in part in the last four years; and how much support each local authority has received for corporate or financial improvement purposes from their local regional improvement and efficiency partnership in each of the last two years. (272356)

John Healey

The following table shows Use of Resources each relevant local authority received in (a) 2006, (b) 2007 and (c) 2008.

Audit commission use of resources judgment

Local authority

(a) 2006

(b) 2007

(c) 2008

Uttlesford

2

1

1

Thurrock

2

2

2

Dacorum

2

1

1

Great Yarmouth

1

1

2

Norwich City

1

1

2

Waveney

2

1

1

Wellingborough

3

2

2

Haringey

3

3

3

Liverpool

2

1

2

Mid Devon

1

1

2

Forest of Dean

2

2

1

Tewkesbury

2

2

2

Mendip

2

2

2

West Somerset

1

1

1

Stoke-on-Trent

2

2

3

Bromsgrove

2

2

2

Cornwall Fire and Rescue Authority

3

2

2

We do not hold information on which local authorities have its accounts qualified.

The Regional Improvement and Efficiency Partnerships (RIEPs) are devolved partnerships of councils and other local services. Information on support each local authority has received for corporate or financial improvement purposes is not held centrally.