The quality of the next WGA will suffer if the Treasury does not resolve challenges in its accounts production process. In recent years, the WGA has improved in quality and the Treasury has taken steps to address our recommendations, such as improving the breakdown of the purchase of goods and services note. We would like to see these improvements continue at pace. We are, however, concerned that delays in local government audit and the extension of the administrative deadlines for central go...

The quality of the next WGA will suffer if the Treasury does not resolve challenges in its accounts production process. In recent years, the WGA has improved in quality and the Treasury has taken steps to address our recommendations, such as improving the breakdown of the purchase of goods and services note. We would like to see these improvements continue at pace. We are, however, concerned that delays in local government audit and the extension of the administrative deadlines for central government accounts will lead to delays in the Treasury receiving returns for the WGA. In the current WGA, the delay in completion of audits of local gover Type: recommendation | Number: 6 | Response status: under_consideration Government response: 6.1 The government agrees with the Committee’s recommendation. Recommendation implemented 6.2 HM Treasury wrote to the Committee on 25 January 2021 setting out some of the challenges in relation to meeting a pre-summer recess publication timetable for WG