Delayed Audit Completion Notice 2022 to 2023

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Gloucestershire Constabulary

External Audit of Accounts: Year ended 31 March 2023

Publication of the Police and Crime Commissioner’s and Chief Constable’s Statement of Accounts and Audit Opinion

Accounts and Audit Regulations 2015 as amended by The Accounts and Audit (Amendment) Regulations 2022

The Police and Crime Commissioner’s and Chief Constable’s external auditors, Grant Thornton UK LLP, have advised the PCC and CC that it has not been possible to complete the audit of the PCC’s and CC’s financial statements for the year ending 31 March 2023 before the deadline of 30 September 2023 due to constraints in police specialist audit resource and the current circumstances in the sector.

Regulation 16(1) of The Accounts and Audit Regulations 2015 requires the PCC/CC to publish a statement:

that the audit has been concluded
that the statement of accounts has been published
of the rights of inspection conferred in local government electors by section 25 of the Act and the address at which, and the hours during which, those rights may be exercised.

As the audit has not yet been concluded, the PCC & CC cannot yet issue this statement.

The unaudited statement of accounts for 2022-23 are available on the PCC’s and CC’s external website.

The notice of conclusion of the audit will be added to the website, alongside the external auditors’ delayed certificate, as soon as this is issued.

Neil Chamberlain

CC CFO and s151

30 September 2023

Peter Lewis

PCC CFO and s151