BRITAIN TOLD TO IMPROVE REGIONAL SPENDING AUDITS OR FACE AID SUSPENSION
November 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRITAIN'S Department for Communities and Local Government has been warned by the European Commission that it must sort out shortcomings in its auditing of European Union regional development spending in England or risk aid payments worth millions of Euros being suspended. A formal note from the Commission's regional policy directorate general was dispatched this week (Wednesday), giving Whitehall six weeks to say how it would fix its audits.
Commission spokesman Ana-Paula Laissy told Accountancy Age the problem lies with the certification by ...
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