To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will place in the Library copies of the external auditors' reports of community health partnerships for each of the last three financial years.
Answered on
27 October 2017
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.