Throughout the course of the 2019–20 accounts preparation process, the Treasury repeatedly underestimated how long it would take to produce the WGA; missing both 11 Public Accounts Committee, Report of session: Whole of Government Accounts 2018–19, 22 January 2021 12 HM Treasury, The Whole of Government Accounts (Specified Dates) Order 2010, 2010 No. 570, 31 March 2010 13 WGA 2019–20, para 9, p 211 14 WGA 2019–20, title page 3 15 HM Treasury, Whole of Government Accounts: year ended 31 March ...

Throughout the course of the 2019–20 accounts preparation process, the Treasury repeatedly underestimated how long it would take to produce the WGA; missing both 11 Public Accounts Committee, Report of session: Whole of Government Accounts 2018–19, 22 January 2021 12 HM Treasury, The Whole of Government Accounts (Specified Dates) Order 2010, 2010 No. 570, 31 March 2010 13 WGA 2019–20, para 9, p 211 14 WGA 2019–20, title page 3 15 HM Treasury, Whole of Government Accounts: year ended 31 March 2019, HC 500, July 2020 16 Public Accounts Committee, Oral evidence: Whole of Government Accounts, HC 31, 8 June 2022, Q 5 17 Q 12 18 WGA 2019–20, para 1 Type: conclusion | Number: 8 | Response status: not_addressed Government response: 1.1 The government agrees with the Committee’s recommendation. Recommendation implemented 1.2 HM Treasury wrote to the Committee in October 2022 indicating that the planned March 2023 publication date for the 2020-21 Whole of Government Accounts (WGA) was unlikely