Financial Reports
Annual Accounts and Audit
Please note: all these reports are in the form of PDF downloads
Announcements of availability of unaudited accounts
- Statutory announcement of the availability of unaudited accounts for Chichester City Council – 2019-2020 (PDF download)
- Statutory announcement of the availability of unaudited accounts for Chichester City Council – 2020-2021 (PDF download)
- Statutory announcement of the availability of unaudited accounts for Chichester City Council – 2021-2022 (PDF download)
- Statutory announcement of the availability of unaudited accounts for Chichester City Council – 2022-2023 (PDF download)
- Statutory announcement of the availability of unaudited accounts for Chichester City Council – 2023-2024 (PDF download)
Annual Governance Statements
- Annual Governance and Accountability Return – 2018-19 (PDF download)
- 2019-2020
- 2020-2021
- 2021-2022
- 2022-2023
- 2023-2024
Notices of conclusions of audits
- Notice of Conclusion of Audit 2018-19 (PDF download)
- Notice of Conclusion of Audit 2019-20 (PDF download)
- Notice of Conclusion of Audit 2020-21 (PDF download)
- Notice of Conclusion of Audit 2021-22 (PDF download)
- Notice of Conclusion of Audit 2022-23 (PDF download)
- Notice of Conclusion of Audit 2023-24 (PDF download)
Statements of Accounts
Each year the Annual Return is inspected by an external auditor.
Chichester City Council’s audited accounts can be downloaded or a paper copy of the document is available by contacting the City Council. The audited Statement of Accounts gives details of Income and Expenditure for the financial year ending 31 March in the stated period.
A local government elector for the City may obtain, inspect or take a hard copy of the Statement of Accounts and Auditors Certificate and Report by arrangement with the Town Clerk between Monday and Friday 9.00am and 5.00pm (except 1.00pm to 2.00pm lunch time) at the Council House, North Street, Chichester.
- Statement of Accounts 2018-19 (PDF download)
- Statement of Accounts 2019-20 (PDF download)
- Statement of Accounts 2020-21 (PDF download)
- Statement of Accounts 2021-22 (PDF download)
- Statement of Accounts 2022-23 (PDF download)
- Statement of Accounts 2023-24 (PDF download)
Payments over £500
During each financial year, the City Council will produce regular reports listing payments over £500 that have been made to various companies, bodies and individuals. This is in accordance with the request from Government for all Councils to be open and transparent.
- 2018 – April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December
- 2019 – January to March | April to September | October to December
- 2020 – January to March | April to June | July | August to October | November 2020 to January 2021
- 2021 – February to March | April | May to September | October to December
- 2022 – January to March | April to June | July to September | October to December
- 2023 – January to March | April to June | July to September | October to December
- 2024 – January to March | April to June | July to September | October to December
Contract schedule
In accordance with the Local Government Transparency Code 2015 local authorities must publish details of any contract, commissioned activity, purchase order, framework agreement and any other legally enforceable agreement with a value that exceeds £5,000.
- Contract Schedule – payments over £5000 – April 2020 to March 2021
- Contract Schedule – payments over £5000 – April 2021 to December 2021
- Contract Schedule – payments over £5000 – March 2022 to June 2022
- Contract Schedule – payments over £5000 – July to December 2022
- Contract Schedule – payments over £5000 – January to December 2023
- Contract Schedule – payments over £5000 – January to September 2024
Community Infrastructure Levy monitoring
Chichester District Council introduced its Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) scheme on 1 February 2016. The CIL the way in which the District Council collects financial contributions from developers to help pay for new and improved infrastructure. This money is passed onto parish councils. The CIL Monitoring Reports below show the amount of CIL money received by the City Council since 1 April 2018 .
- Chichester City Council CIL monitoring – 1 April 2018 – 31 March 2019 (PDF download)
- Chichester City Council CIL monitoring – 1 April 2019 – 31 March 2020 (PDF download)
- Chichester City Council CIL monitoring – 1 April 2020 – 31 March 2021 (PDF download)
- Chichester City Council CIL monitoring – 1 April 2021 – 31 March 2022 (PDF download)
- Chichester City Council CIL monitoring – 1 April 2022 – 31 March 2023 (PDF download)
- Chichester City Council CIL monitoring – 1 April 2023 – 31 March 2024 (PDF download)