Public Accounts Committee Chair Jonathan Morgan responds to Wales Audit Office report on Plas Madoc Communities First scheme

18 March 2010

Chair of the National Assembly for Wales’s Public Accounts Committee, Jonathan Morgan AM, has responded to Wales Audit Office’s report on Plas Madoc Communities First.

He said: “The reports by the Wales Audit Office and the Assembly Government’s internal audit service both make worrying reading. Plas Madoc Communities First has clearly been misusing public funds for a number of years and urgent action is needed to ensure this doesn’t happen again.

“This situation is even more regrettable at a time when public services are facing severe financial pressures, as described earlier this week in the Auditor General’s report ‘A Picture of Public Services.”

A copy of the report by the Wales Audit Office is available on their website: www.wao.gov.uk