We have a joint committee which no longer has a statutory requirement to have an external auditor but has agreed in the interests of all parties to continue to engage one. Is it possible to use PSAA’s national scheme to procure the external auditor for the joint committee?

The requirement for joint committees to produce statutory accounts ceased after production of the 2014/15 accounts and they are therefore not listed in Schedule 2 of the Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014.

Joint committees that have opted to produce accounts voluntarily and obtain non-statutory assurance on them need to make their own local audit arrangements as they are not eligible to join the PSAA scheme.