Our accounts

Audit of Accounts 2024-2025

Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014, sections 26, 27, 32, 43(2) and 46

Accounts and Audit Regulations 2015 Regulations 9, 14 15 & 21

The Accounts and Audit (Amendment) Regulations 2021

The Council’s accounts are subject to external audit by Ernst & Young, the Appointed Auditor, the local address of which is Ernst & Young LLP, Apex Plaza, Forbury Road, Reading, RG1 1YE. Members of the public and local government electors have certain rights in the audit process:-

Any person may contact the Council with a request to inspect the accounts of the Council for the year ended 31 March 2025 and certain related documents (comprising books, deeds, contracts, bills, vouchers, receipts and other documents relating to those records) by sending a request to the email addresses given at the end of this notice From Thursday 24 July 2025 to Monday 8 September 2025. They may also request copies of the accounts and documents.

This does not entitle a person to:
1. inspect or copy any part of any record or document containing information which is protected on the grounds of commercial confidentiality,
2. inspect or copy any part of any record or document containing personal information, or
3. require any such information to be disclosed in answer to any question
During the period stated above, a local government elector for the area of the Council, or her / his representative, may make a request to ask the auditor questions about the accounts. Please contact the address given above to make arrangements to ask any questions.
From 9.30am on Thursday 24 July 2025 to Monday 8 September 2025, a local government elector for the area of the Council, or her/his representative, may object to the Council’s accounts on a matter in respect of which the auditor could make a public interest report or which is contrary to law (under Section 28 of the Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014). Objections must be made in writing, giving details of the matter in question and the grounds on which it is being made, and sent to the auditor at the address given above and copied to the address given below.

The unaudited statement of accounts can also be found on the Council’s website from Thursday 24 July 2025. This date is later than the first 10 working days of June of the financial year immediately following the end of the financial year to which the statement relates due to the date for publication of draft accounts being 23 July 2025 for the year in question. The statement of accounts as published may be subject to change following audit.

Email addresses to use to make requests to inspect the accounts and related documents:

Nigel Kennedy
Head of Financial Services
Oxford City Council
Town Hall
St Aldate's
Oxford
OX1 1BX

Email: nkennedy@oxford.gov.uk
Telephone: 01865 252039

The Appointed Auditor:

Andrew Brittain
Partner
Ernst & Young LLP
R+ 2 Blagrave Street,
Reading,
RG1 1AZ
Email: abrittain@uk.ey.com

Download the unaudited Statement of Accounts for 2024-25 (PDF 1.26MB)

Audited Accounts

Our most recent set of accounts covers the year ending 31 March 2024.These accounts have been disclaimed in line with the plans for local government audit reset. You can download these accounts below:

Download the Audited Statement of Accounts 2023-24 (PDF 1.27MB)