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This Annual Plan covers the last full 12-month period of Adrian’s tenure as Auditor General and continues progress towards the delivery of our five-year strategy.
The value of public audit in a rapidly changing, complex environment is vital to providing assurance to the public, politicians, decision-makers and influencers on whether public money is being well spent. This is even more important in times when public services continue to face enormous financial, demand and workforce pressures.
Our Annual Plan, as well as setting out our work programme for 2025-26, also highlights several priority areas that will support our audit work and the running of the business, how we plan on achieving them and what we will do to enhance our approach to monitoring performance.
The biggest area of our work involves auditing the accounts of over 800 public bodies across Wales. Through the COVID pandemic period the timeliness of the delivery of this work deteriorated. Working with our audited bodies, it is taking several years to bring that large programme of work back to pre-pandemic timescales, but we are determined to do so and confident that we will. In 2025-26, we will continue the progress made over the last two years to bring forward the reporting deadlines for our audit of accounts work. We also aim for further improvement in the timeliness of the performance audit work we deliver at individual NHS and local government bodies. With the public purse strings so tight, it is more important than ever to get value for money from every pound of public spending. In our local and national studies programmes, therefore, we aim to give even sharper focus to value for money through stronger financial and outcomes analysis.
The next few years will see considerable change and opportunity for Audit Wales. In 2026, the eight-year term of the current Auditor General will end, and a new Auditor General will be appointed. Also in 2026, there will be elections to an expanded Senedd. Public sector landscapes are ever-changing, especially in terms of new technologies, growing regulatory requirements, and public expectations of government accountability. Our Annual Plan for 2025-26 sees us readying ourselves for that evolving world. None of what we aim to achieve over the coming year will be possible without our highly skilled and motivated teams and supporting their wellbeing will remain, therefore, our highest priority as it underpins all that we do.