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• Councillors Allowances Return 2022/23

• Notice of Public Rights - Inspection of Accounts 2022/23

  Audit of Accounts

  Notice is hereby given that pursuant to Articles 17 and 18 of the Local Government (Northern Ireland) Order 2005 and the Local Government (Accounts and Audit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015:

  From 27 July 2023 to 23 August 2023 inclusive between 9.00am and 4.15pm on Monday to Friday any member of the public, on application in advance in writing to the Head of Finance, Mid and East Antrim Borough Council, Ardeevin, 80 Galgorm Road, Ballymena, BT42 1AB may inspect the accounts of the above named Council for the year ended 31 March 2023 and all books, deeds, contracts, bills, vouchers and receipts relating to them and make copies thereof.

  Notice is also given that on or after 24 August 2023, at the request of an interested person*, the Local Government Auditor, will give that person an opportunity to question the auditor about the accounts, and that any such interested person may attend before the auditor and make objections -

  (i) as to any matter in respect of which the auditor could take action under Articles 19 or 20 of the Local Government (Northern Ireland) Order 2005; or

  (ii) as to any other matter in respect of which the auditor could make a report under Article 9 of that Order.

  No objection may be made unless the auditor has received written notice of the proposed objection, stating the facts on which the interested person proposes to rely and containing, so far as possible -

  (a) particulars of any item of account which is alleged to be contrary to law;

  (b) particulars of -

  (i) any person from whom it is alleged that the auditor should certify under Articles 20 of the Local Government (Northern Ireland) Order that a sum or amount of loss or deficiency is due, and

  (ii) that sum or amount, and

  (c) particulars of any matter in respect of which it is proposed that the auditor should make a report under Article 9 of that Order.

  Such written requests and notices should be sent by the 14 September 2023 to the Local Government Auditor Colette Kane at 106 University Street, Belfast, BT7 1EU. A copy of any notice of proposed objection must also be sent to the Council at the address below. The auditor plans to close the audit and certify accounts at a date in the period from 15 September 2023 to 29 September 2023.

  *“Interested person”: (a) a local government elector for the district of the body to which the audit relates; (b) a person liable for rates in respect of any hereditament situated in that district; or (c) a representative of a person mentioned in (a) or (b). 

• Annual Audit Letter for the year ended 31 March 2022

  Annual Audit Letter - Mid and East Antrim Borough Council 2021-2022

  A text version of the audit letter is available on a dedicated page on this website.

• 2021/22 Financial Statements

• Notice of Conclusion of Audit for 2021/22

• Councillors Allowances Return 2021/22

• Prompt Payment report for April 2022 to March 2023

  This guidance established a cycle of quarterly reporting on prompt payment performance by Councils to the DFC and its publication on Council's website.

  The Department for Communities (DFC) issued revised guidance (Local Government Circular 17/2013) on prompt payments and the recording of invoice payments in October 2013.

  The prompt payment performance of Mid and East Antrim Borough Council is set out below:

  Qtr 1:

  Month	Total number of paid invoices	Total value of invoices paid	Number paid within 10 working days	%	Number paid within 30 calendar days	%	Number paid outside 30 calendar days	%	Number of disputed invoices	Average No of days to pay
  April 2022	2,444	£4,665,785.08	1,142	46.73	2,140	87.56	304	12.44	0	14
  May 2022	2,860	£6,505,670.05	1,737	60.73	2,016	70.49	844	29.51	0	15
  June 2022	3,082	£3,846,729.69	1,617	52.47	2,226	72.23	856	27.77	0	16
  Totals	8,386	£15,018,184.82	4,496	53.61	6,382	76.10	2,004	23.90	0	15

  Qtr 2:

  Month	Total number of paid invoices	Total value of invoices paid	Number paid within 10 working days	%	Number paid within 30 calendar days	%	Number paid outside 30 calendar days	%	Number of disputed invoices	Average No of days to pay
  July 2022	1,883	£3,749,904.85	1,194	63.41	1,555	82.58	328	17.42	0	12
  August 2022	2,817	£4,651,500.89	1,969	69.90	2,420	85.91	397	14.09	0	11
  September 2022	2,645	£4,185,939.26	1,837	69.45	2,234	84.46	411	15.54	0	12
  Totals	7,345	£12,587,345.00	5,000	68.07	6,209	84.53	1,136	15.47	0	12

  Qtr 3:

  Month	Total number of paid invoices	Total value of invoices paid	Number paid within 10 working days	%	Number paid within 30 calendar days	%	Number paid outside 30 calendar days	%	Number of disputed invoices	Average No of days to pay
  October 2022	2,682	£4,262,288.23	1,734	64.65	2,035	75.88	647	24.12	0	14
  November 2022	2,858	£3,775,702.17	2,039	71.74	2,221	77.71	637	22.29	0	13
  December 2022	1,964	£3,318,641.23	1,233	62.78	1,664	84.73	300	15.27	0	11
  Totals	7,504	£11,356,631.63	5,006	66.71	5,920	78.89	1,584	21.11	0	13

  Qtr 4:

  Month	Total number of paid invoices	Total value of invoices paid	Number paid within 10 working days	%	Number paid within 30 calendar days	%	Number paid outside 30 calendar days	%	Number of disputed invoices	Average No of days to pay
  January 2023	5,075	£6,513,618.74	4,316	85.04	4,814	94.86	261	5.14	0	8
  February 2023	5,461	£7,942,274.61	5,132	93.98	​5,380	98.52	81	1.48	0	6
  March 2023	5,530	£11,657,879.74	5,280	95.48	5,425	98.10	105	1.90	0	5
  Totals	16,066	£26,113,773.09	14,728	91.67	15,619	97.22	447	2.78	0	6

• Notice of Public Rights - Inspection of Accounts 2021/22

  Notice of Public Rights - Inspection of Accounts 2021/22

• Notice of Conclusion of Audit for 2020/21

• 2020/21 Financial Statements

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