questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he has made an estimate of the number of local authorities that haven't published their annual accounts for financial year 2022-23 as of 9 November 2023.
answerText: There is a statutory duty, under the Accounts and Audit Regulations (2015), for local authorities to publish audited accounts annually. The department does not hold this information centrally, but local authorities are required by law to make these accoun...
heading: Local Government: Annual Reports