Accounts and finance

Yearly accounts, financial spend data, council finances, audits.

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Yearly accounts

Each year we publish our account statements. The statements include:

  • the cost of services provided by us per year
  • how we paid for the services
  • our assets and liabilities at the end of our financial year

Draft financial statement 2024 to 2025

From 1 July to 1 September 2025, between 9am and 4.30pm (Monday to Friday), you can inspect, and make copies of, our accounts for the year ended 31 March 2025.

For more information, go to notice of public rights to inspect accounts: 2024 to 2025.

Download our draft financial statement.

Draft financial statement 2024 to 2025 (PDF, 1.54 MB)

Statement on the publication of accounts for 2019/2020 to 2023/2024

Notice is hereby given that, in accordance with the Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014 and the Accounts and Audit Regulations 2015, the external audit of the draft statement of accounts for the above years have not yet been completed by our external auditors:

  • BDO LLP for years 2019/2020 to 2022/2023
  • Grant Thornton UK LLP for 2023/2024

The completion of the audits has been impacted by a combination of factors, including the complexity arising from our overall financial position, as outlined in the Section 114 Notice issued in June 2023 and the ongoing review of previous Statements of Accounts.

Additionally, BDO had not completed their consideration of matters relating to our compliance with applicable laws and regulations, and how these impact on the auditor’s report.

These circumstances have collectively extended the time required for completing the audit process. We continue to work with both sets of auditors to facilitate completion of outstanding audits as soon as practicable.

Draft financial statements 2019 to 2024

The format of our accounts is set by CIPFA under the Code of Practice on Local Authority Accounting for the United Kingdom.

To read your rights, see the local authority accounts: a guide to your rights – the National Audit Office.

Background information to the draft statements of accounts 2019 to 2024

The Audit and Governance Committee meeting minutes (29 July 2024) and the Full Council meeting minutes (26 September 2024) (PDF, 196.07 KB) The Director of Corporate Finance's (Section 151 Officer) explanatory statement: 2022 to 2023 (PDF, 197.76 KB) The Director of Corporate Finance’s (Section 151 Officer) explanatory statement: 2019 to 2022 (PDF, 144.83 KB)