• Wales Audit Office logo on a red background
    Unlawful spending at two councils exceeds £290,000
  • Wales Audit Office logo on a red background
    Council overspending exhausts reserves
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    Public spending patterns since devolution ‘interesting and perhaps unexpected’
  • Puzzle pieces on a blue EU background
    Preparations in Wales for a ‘no-deal’ Brexit – an update
  • Wales Audit Office logo on a red background
    Unlawful action at Town Council
  • Padlock resting on a laptop keyboard
    Welsh public services could lose up to £1 billion a year to fraud
  • 6 coloured blocks
    Six steps to better scrutiny in Wales
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    Urgent improvements needed to internal audit arrangements at town and community councils in Wales
  • Person with a calculator at a desk
    Current standard of financial management “disappointing” at too many town and community councils in Wales
  • Wales Audit Office logo on a red background
    Failures in governance and financial management at more community councils
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    Welsh Government needs a more coordinated approach for managing financial support for business
  • WEFO faced major challenge to commit EU funding before Brexit
    The Welsh European Funding Office (WEFO) faced a major challenge to commit all EU structural funds before Brexit.
  • Local councils making progress in improving governance and management of public money
    Local councils in Wales are managing increasing sums of public money and assets, and  in order for councils to manage these effectivel
  • Financial accounts in central and local government ‘prepared to a good standard’
    His first report focuses on Central Government bodies in Wales.
  • Councils in Wales are improving their medium-term financial planning
    The majority of councils in Wales have improved their medium-term financial plans and now have an effective approach to forecasting the sav