Public Sector Audit Appointments Limited (PSAA) welcomes the confirmation of Bill Butler as Chair of the Local Audit Office (LAO) by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Bill will continue in his role as PSAA Chair, helping the two organisations to work together as the overhaul of local audit progresses. PSAA has put […]
We have published the number of audit opinions delivered up to 31 May 2026 on our website. Data for previous months can be viewed on our monthly audit opinion data page.
PSAA has published its Contract Monitoring Data Pack: Quarter 4 for 2025/26. We produce quarterly reports on our contracted firms, building up information as the year progresses. The data pack covers audit opinions, approved fee variations and electors’ objections up to 31 March 2026. 24 audit opinions are outstanding for audits up to 2024/25, which […]
We have published the number of audit opinions delivered up to 30 April 2026 on our website. Data for previous months is available on our monthly audit opinion data page.
We are pleased to announce the appointment of Adrian Lythgo as a Director on the PSAA Board. Adrian joins the Board after serving as the independent member of PSAA’s Audit Committee, a role he held from February 2025. Adrian is a Chartered Accountant with over 30 years of public sector leadership experience, including roles as […]
We have published updates to our auditor appointment directories following our April updates from our audit suppliers: You can also visit our pages that list all directories for 2018/19 to 2022/23 and 2023/24 to 2027/28.
We have published the number of audit opinions delivered up to 31 March 2026 on our website. Data for previous months is available on our monthly audit opinion data page.
We have published the number of audit opinions delivered up to 28 February 2026 on our website. We also issued a press release on the local government audit opinion position as at the 27 February 2026 backstop date for the 2024/25 audits, which may be of interest. Data for previous months is available on our […]
Auditors have reported issuing 183 unmodified opinions, and 231 disclaimed (188) or qualified (43) opinions due to the 27 February 2026 backstop, for the 2024/25 audits of accounts covered by PSAA’s appointing person scheme. There are a further 36 opinions that remain outstanding. There were also 7 modified opinions that auditors have not attributed to […]
PSAA has published its Contract Monitoring Data Pack: Quarter 3 for 2025/26. We produce quarterly reports on our contracted firms, building up information as the year progresses. The data pack covers audit opinions, approved fee variations and electors’ objections up to 31 December 2025. 21 audit opinions are outstanding for audits up to 2023/24, which has reduced by 28 since the 28 February 2025 backstop date, as published on our website. Contract monitoring data packs for previous quarters are […]