December 2024 – audit opinion data

The number of audit opinions delivered as at 31 December 2024 is shown in the table below.

Audit year –
backstop date
Number of opted-in bodies (total audits)Number of audits delivered up to 31 Dec 2024
2023/24
28 Feb 2025
459To be added

The number of audit opinions delivered as at 13 December 2024 is shown in the table below.

Audit year –
publishing date
Number of opted-in bodies (total audits)Percentage of audits complete by publishing dateNumber of audits outstanding per year at 13 Dec 2024Number of incomplete audits by the oldest outstanding year
2022/23
30 Sept 2023
4671%30 (6%)8
2021/22
30 Nov 2022
46712%22 (5%)6
2020/21
30 Sep 2021
4749%16 (3%)8
2019/20
30 Nov 2020
47845%8 (2%)7
2018/19
31 Jul 2019
48757%1 (<1%)0
Please note: the table excludes three opinions outstanding at one body from 2015/16 to 2017/18.

You can access a breakdown of detailed audit opinion data up to 13 December 2024 in this report.