HEREFORD & WORCESTER FIRE AUTHORITY
AUDIT OF ACCOUNTS YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2024
NOTICE OF PUBLIC RIGHTS
Notice of Delay in the Publication of Unaudited 2023/24 Statement of Accounts and in the Commencement of the Public Inspection Period
Under section 10 of the Accounts and Audit Regulations 2015, the Fire Authority is required to publish its draft annual Statement of Accounts by 31st May each year.
Under section 26 of the Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014, any persons interested have a right at the audit of the accounts each year to inspect the accounting records for the financial year to which the audit relates and all relevant information relating to those records.
Regulations 14 and 15 of the Accounts and Audit Regulations 2015 (as amended) require that this right (and associated rights) are exercisable over a single period of 30 working days, commencing no later than 1st June 2024. If this deadline cannot be met, the Fire Authority is required to publish a notice of delay.
Notice is given that:
- The Fire Authority has not yet published the draft Statement of Accounts for 2023/24 and commenced the period for the exercise of public inspection.
- The Fire Authority will publish a draft set of accounts as soon as reasonably practicable, following which the period for the exercise of public inspection will commence. The Fire Authority has been unable to complete the Statement of Accounts for 2023/24 due to delays in the completion of the audits of the Statement of Accounts for 2021/22 and 2022/23.
A further notice will be published in due course setting out the public inspection period as soon as the Audit of the draft 2022/23 Statement of Accounts has been completed and the draft 2023/24 Statement of Accounts have been finalised
Date: 12th June 2024
Nigel Snape
Clerk to the Authority
Hereford & Worcester Fire Authority
Hindlip Park
Worcester
WR3 8SP