Policy paper

Government response to the pre-legislative scrutiny report by the draft Local Audit Bill Committee

This document represents the government’s response to the draft Local Audit Bill Committee report.

• From: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (2018 to 2021)
• Published: 25 April 2013

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

Applies to England

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Government response to the pre-legislative scrutiny report by the draft Local Audit Bill Committee

Ref: ISBN 9780101856621, Cm. 8566

PDF, 434 KB, 24 pages

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The draft Local Audit Bill was published in July 2012, for consultation and pre-legislative scrutiny. During the autumn of 2012, an ad hoc committee of the House of Commons was established and tasked with undertaking the pre-legislative scrutiny of the draft Local Audit Bill (PDF, 1.56 MB).

A summary of the consultation responses to draft Bill was published on the 24 October 2012.

On 17 January 2013, the committee published its report and recommendations (PDF, 1.43 MB). This document represents the government’s carefully considered response to the committee’s report.

Published 25 April 2013