Annual report and accounts

Notice of delay in publication of draft 2025/26 Statement of Account

Newcastle City Council

Notice of delay in publication of draft 2025/26 Statement of Accounts and in the commencement of the public inspection period

Pursuant to the Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014 and Audit regulations 2015, notice is hereby given that the council has not:

1. published the draft Statement of Accounts for the year ended 31st March 2026 by the statutory deadline of 30 June, and
2. commenced the period for the exercise of public inspection because the Statement of Accounts is not ready for publication.

Under section 26 of the Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014, any persons interested has a right to inspect the accounting records for the financial year including all books, deeds, contracts, bills, vouchers, receipts and other documents relating to those records.

Regulations 14 and 15 of the Accounts and Audit Regulations 2015 (as amended) require that this right (and associated rights) be exercisable over a single period of 30 working days.

The publication of the Council's draft 2025/26 accounts by 30 June 2026 has been delayed and has consequently delayed the commencement of the public inspection period.

The Council will aim to publish the draft 2025/26 accounts as soon as is practically possible, following which the period for the exercise of public inspection will commence.

Mark Nicholson
Chief Finance Officer
Finance Directorate
Newcastle City Council
Civic Centre
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 8QH

Past Annual Reports

2024-25

• Audited Financial Statements and Annual Governance Statement 2024-25 (pdf 8.01 mb) 

2023-24

• Audited Financial Statements and Annual Governance Statement 2023-24 (pdf, 6.61mb)
• Audit Certificate 2023-24

2022-23

• Statement of Accounts 2022-23 (pdf, 4.8mb)

2021-22

• Statement of Accounts 2021-22 (pdf, 30.8mb)
• Audit Certificate 2021-22 (pdf, 403kb)

2020-21

• Statement of accounts 2020-21 (pdf, 5.7mb)
• Audit Certificate 2020-21 (pdf, 1.1mb)

2019-20

• Statement of accounts 2019-20 (pdf, 2.2mb)
• Audit Certificate 2019-20 (pdf, 111kb)

2018-19

• Statement of accounts 2018-19 (pdf, 2.8mb)
• Audit Certificate 2018-19 (pdf, 480kb)

2017-18

• Statement of accounts 2017-18 (pdf, 3.79mb)
• Audit Certificate 2017-18 (pdf, 696kb)

2016-17

• Statement of accounts 2016-17 (pdf, 9.88mb)
• Audit Certificate 2016-17 (pdf, 659kb)

2015-16 

• Statement of accounts 2015-16 (pdf, 3.75mb)
• Audit Certificate 2015-16 (pdf, 674kb)

2014-15

• Statement of accounts 2014-15 (pdf, 1.01mb)

2013-14

• Statement of accounts 2013-14 (pdf, 924kb)

2012-13

• Statement of accounts 2012-13 (pdf, 1.0mb)

Notice of appointment of a Local Auditor to Newcastle City Council from 2019/20

Under Section 8(2) of the Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014, this Authority must publish a notice relating to the appointment of its Local Auditor.

On 21 July 2017 Newcastle City Council made an appointment of a Local Auditor, as part of a collaborative procurement with North Tyneside Council and Northumberland County Council. The Local Auditor appointed is Ernst and Young, and the period of their appointment is from 1 April 2018 until 31 March 2023.

The independent Auditor Panel convened to advise Newcastle City Council on the selection and appointment of Local Auditor recommended the appointment of Ernst and Young for this period. The report of the independent Auditor Panel was considered at a meeting of full council on 28 June 2017 and is attached below.

Council's decision at that meeting was to follow the advice of the independent Auditor Panel,  and to endorse the Auditor Panel's recommendation that Ernst and Young be appointed as Local Auditor for the period 1 April 2018 to 31 March 2023.

• Report of the independent auditor panel (pdf, 156kb)

For the period 2023-24 to 2027-28, Ernst and Young were appointed as Local Auditor through the Public Sector Audit Appointment (PSAA).