The Audit Commission cannot find Mr Neill's letter and denies that it would count as anything requiring attention under the Audit Commission Act if it could find it. It says it has no record of having received it.
So I am left nicely caught between two powerful bodies, a government department and a government agency, one says the letter was copied to the AC and the AC says it has no record of receiving this.
In yet another self contradictory twist a new person asserts that the Audit Commission agrees with Bob Neill and has always taken his position. Well, that person needs to read up on it, for it has certainly not done any such thing.
On the contrary it insists that the output shows that a person is making two contradictory claims at the same time. If it did what Bob Neill said it would stop saying this. It tells councils that if the discount is right the code 'needs' altering. This is not what Bob Neill says, for it implies that council records are wrong.
