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Recommendation 21
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Department's accounting officer detailed excess expenditure and audit qualification to committee.
Recommendation
The Department’s Accounting Officer wrote to the Public Accounts Committee on 28 January 2025, setting out further detail behind the excess and the Comptroller & Auditor General’s qualification of his audit opinion on the Department’s 2023–24 Annual Report and Accounts.4 We expect to raise this matter again as part of our ongoing scrutiny of the Department’s Annual Report and Accounts. 4 Letter from Department for Business and Trade to PAC dated 18 January 2025 8
Government Response
A response document is linked to this report, dated 16 May 2025. Response attribution to this conclusion has not been verified. Read the response document ↗