Two-year delay in publishing Government accounts hinders probes into taxpayers' money, warn MPs

Labour accuses ministers of 'reckless abandon' as MPs on Public Accounts Committee criticise the Treasury

Government accounts published two years late hinder probes into ‘how it manages taxpayers’ money’, MPs warn

The 2019-20 Whole of Government Accounts were published 26 months after the statutory five-month deadline. criticised the Treasury for releasing them so late. It warned that the accounts are “increasingly unreliable and incomplete” because of local failures of audit – also hit by Covid-19. “Now we see the same picture emerging in the cross-government national accounts. We still desperately need to see the big picture as the Government balances one massive intervention after another – from the pandemic response to the interrelated energy, climate and cost-of-living crises.

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