Audit of Bradford City MDC

Audit Commission did not have the information requested.

Dear Sirs

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000

On 8th March 2011 Rachel Lindley reached a decision that the City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council acted neither unlawfully nor unreasonably with respect to its agreements with the developers of the Broadway site.

I require a full and unredacted copy of all material considered in reaching this decision and all relevant correspondence.

Yours faithfully

Richard Killip

Freedom of Information,

Dear Mr Killip, thank you for your request.

Unfortunately the Commission doesn't hold these records and so we cannot provide them. This is because the information gathered during the audit will be held by the auditor, who is not covered by the Freedom of Information Act.

When carrying their statutory functions, appointed auditors, including those who work for the Commission's Audit Practice are independent of the Commission. They hold their own records that we do not have access to, and work in a quasi-judicial way.

I would recommend asking the council for the information, as they may hold a copy, or you could approach the auditor direct, and ask if they would be prepared to let you have a copy. This though would be at their discretion, and not under the Freedom of Information Act.

I'm sorry that I couldn't help on this occasion.

Yours sincerely

Rob Mauler
Public Enquiries

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Richard Killip left an annotation ()

Further to the Audit Commission's recommendations I submitted my FoI request to the City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council, which can be found here: http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/au...

Dear Rob

Thank you for your helpful response.

I shall refer my request to the council.

Yours sincerely

Richard Killip