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Equalities and Human Rights Commission fails to get its accounts right for third time in a row

By Mark Pack | Sat 25th June 2011 - 10:23 am

The news this week that for the third year in a row there are huge problems with financial control at the Equalities and Human Rights Commission raises questions not only about the future of its senior management but also about the paucity of political debate over its future.

There have only been three sets of annual accounts since the EHRC was formed – and each time the National Audit Office has refused to approve them so deep are the problems with the EHRC’s financial (non-)control.

It’s a perfect record: three sets of accounts, three sets of problems:

In 2008, a year after the

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Posted in News | Also tagged EHRC and trevor phillips | 6 Comments

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