External Audit of Accounts 2021/22 North Northamptonshire Council Statement of Accounts and Audit Opinion

Notice of the Publication of the Statement of Accounts, Annual Governance Statement and Narrative Statement Notice given in accordance with the Accounts and Audit (Amended) Regulations 2022: North Northamptonshire Council are not able to issue its final audited Statement of Accounts by the required deadline of 30 November 2022.

The external audit of the draft statement of accounts for the year ended 31 March 2022 has not yet been completed by our external auditors, Grant Thornton UK LLP.
The delay has arisen due to awaiting the completion of the audits for legacy authorities for March 2021, together with Northamptonshire County Council Accounts which have not yet been concluded for the year ended March 2021 due to awaiting the issuing of a statutory instrument, by Government, setting out the required approach for accounting for infrastructure assets.

It is anticipated that the audit will continue in 2023, after which the Statement of Accounts and opinion will be published as soon as is reasonably practicable.
This situation is allowed for by Regulation 10, paragraph (2a) of the Accounts and Audit Regulations 2015.

Therefore, this notification explains, as per Regulation 10 paragraph (2a), that we are not yet able to publish our audited 2021/22 final statement of accounts in line with publication date of 30th November 2022, as per paragraph (1).

Janice Gotts
Executive Director of Finance (Section 151 Officer)
30 November 2022

Last updated 02 December 2022