Councils' compliance with the best- value rule would also be checked using a beefed-up version of the Audit Commission's annual comparisons of their costs and efficiency.
It's no small thing that Mr. Romney's platform calls for a gold commission and an audit of the Fed.
Communities Secretary Eric Pickles accused the Audit Commission of being part of a "conspiracy" to kill off weekly collections in England.
Evidence from the Department for Education and Skills, the National Union of Teachers, the NSPCC, the Audit Commission, the Department of Constitutional Affairs, the Department of Health, and Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary was also collected.
"Rhondda has quite some way to go yet before it can be satisfied with the services it's delivering, " said Sue Mead of the Audit Commission.
As peers debated the Public Bodies Bill on 9 November 2010, Lady Scott, a former member of the Audit Commission and the Commission for Integrated Transport, said many quangos spent relatively little and the biggest spenders were those that administered grants.
David Miliband: Secondly, if you look at the performance of local government, the independent assessments that are carried out by the Audit Commission, suggest that two thirds of councils are now delivering a good or excellent service, that's good.
Just as promptly, he needs to set up a land commission, produce an early audit of who owns the land and arrange a proper system of compensation, with help from Britain, for those who have lost it.
"I can't spend all my time looking at this standards issue and doing the job at the council, so I thought the best thing to do was to temporarily stand down for two to three weeks to deal with this matter and then get back to running what is regarded by the Audit Commission as one of the best-run councils in the country".
Mark Easton said it was part of the government's plan to abolish professional Whitehall scrutineers like the Audit Commission and replace them with an "army of armchair auditors".
There is no shortage of evidence that the current system of local government could be improved: last year, an Audit Commission report criticised the committee system as an enormous waste of time and money.
Members of the Commission for Health Improvement and the Audit Commission will appear before the assembly's health committee on 9 January.
The BADS and Audit Commission has published a list of 25 operations that should be carried out as day cases.
But a study last year by the Audit Commission suggested that only half of GPs believed it was important to look for the signs of dementia, because it is incurable.
In the London borough of Brent, for example, Audit Commission inspectors found a department painfully recovering from a politically driven reorganisation in the 1990s that divided it into an extraordinary 21 business units.
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He then moved to be controller of audit and chief executive with the Accounts Commission.
Last year the Audit Commission reported that there were wide differences in levels of achievement of local authorities with similar levels of disadvantage.
The Audit Commission confirmed it had been approached by a member of the public over proceedings at Somerton Town Council earlier this year.
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In 2009, Liberty Consulting Group conducted a comprehensive management audit of Con Edison for the New York Public Service Commission.
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Following advice received from the audit commission his complaint will go to Cornwall's head of finance and to the county's external auditor.
According to a report this week from the Audit Commission, a public-spending watchdog, the introduction of a similar system in Australia resulted in a big productivity improvement.
In June 2012, the European Commission's Directorate General for Health and Consumers issued its summary of an audit of abbatoirs in Italy - the EU's biggest consumer of horsemeat.
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This is laid down in the Audit Commission Act, which gives local electors a temporary right of access to the detailed financial records of English councils and police and fire authorities (including contracts, bills, vouchers and receipts).
In its last report, the Audit Commission noted that in London, for example, the proportion of council tenants owing more than 13 weeks' rent varied widely.
The FTC seeks to strengthen its oversight of the approved self-regulatory "safe harbor programs" by requiring them to audit their members and report annually to the Commission the aggregated results of those audits.
However, the NAO said information compiled by the Audit Commission, the local government spending watchdog, suggested that 12% of local authorities were at risk of not balancing future budgets.
The Audit Commission, which was set up in 1983, is responsible for overseeing the spending of taxpayers' money by local councils and some health organisations.
The Audit Commission report in April 2010, which led to the government intervention, found the people of Doncaster were "not well served" by the council.
The Audit Commission report revealed "stark differences" in health finances around the country with the majority of the deficits focused in London and the south-east.
The Audit Commission, the local government spending watchdog which is set to being abolished by the end of 2012, welcomed the release of the information but warned that bare figures did not provide the whole story.
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