Neil Carmichael MP made the comments in response to the National Audit Office’s (NAO) damning verdict on the DfE’s financial accounts for 2014/15, which were laid before Parliament last week.
Sir Amyas Morse, the comptroller and auditor general at the NAO, has provided an “adverse opinion on the truth and fairness of the DfE’s group financial statements”.
On April 20, he said: “Providing Parliament with a clear view of academy trusts’ spending is a vital part of the Department for Education’s work – yet it is failing to do this. As a result, I have today provided an adverse opinion on the truth and fairness of its financial statements.”
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