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I refer to your request for information, in your e mail dated 10 April 2005 (our ref. 14/05).
In response to your enquiry, the Northern Ireland Audit Office (NIAO) does not produce a measure equivalent to that of the National Audit Office. NIAO does, however, measure the impact of its work and the results of this [...]

According to a recent issue of Private Eye, the independent auditors for Newtownabbey Borough Council found a number of unlawful policies and practices, such as:
* “in lieu” payments to officers who didn’t take their full leave entitlement
* using council credit cards to run up thousands of pounds of personal expenditure
* paying compensation (in excess of [...]

In report sproduced by the National Audit Office in England there is a statement to the effect that the work of the NAO saves the taxpayer at least eight pounds for each pound spent running the office.
The Northern Ireland Audit Office make no such claim. So I’m wondering if they calculate it and don’t print [...]

Recently I received my copy of the Spring 2005 “City Matters”, the magazine distributed by Belfast City Council to every home in the area.
There are several articles in it about the new anti-litter campaigns around Belfast. Apparently since last April 746 fixed penalty notices have been issued for littering, and they’ve just employed another litter [...]

It’s beginning to look like all I’m interested in is parking! So time for a whole different type of request. One of the other fascinating documents I found on the NIAO site was their June 2004 report into the Use of Consultants by Northern Ireland Civil Service. This is a horrifying document reporting on a [...]

The report that I received from the NIAO on On-Street Parking referenced a survey of on-street parking commissioned by Roads Service in 1998. This was the one that revealed that 41% of cars surveyed were parked illegally (94% in some areas), and that thus Roads Service could be losing as much as 300k a year [...]

The nice people at the NIAO responded very quickly to my request letting me know that they could post a copy of the report out to me. However, as their office is just across the street from mine, I suggested that I could just pick it up. They left a copy of it out for [...]

I recently discovered the Northern Ireland Audit Office. They’re the NI equivalent of the NAO, and have pretty much the same goals - to make sure that local government is working effectively and to combat public sector fraud.
Unlike the NAO who seem to produce several reports a week, the NIAO only produces about 10 reports [...]