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PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Community Health Partnerships (19 October 2017)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions he has had with Community Health Partnerships on that organisation's decision not to use the National Audit Office as auditors.

Asked by:
Karin Smyth (Labour)

Answer

The external auditors reports are included in Community Health Partnerships’ (CHP) annual accounts and these are a publicly available document held by Companies House and published on the CHP website at:

http://www.communityhealthpartnerships.co.uk/publication-scheme

The company followed a procurement process in line with its procurement policy by way of competitive tender in which the National Audit Office (NAO) participated but were unsuccessful. Although the NAO is responsible for auditing the financial statements of all central government departments, agencies and other public sector bodies, as a limited company CHP may appoint its own independent auditors.


Answered by:
Philip Dunne (Conservative)
27 October 2017

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