This week in this council
3 dated public sittings held across the wards.
Two doors
This council in one sitting
Latest signed accounts and the external auditor live on Investigate. City totals stay there. Ward doors only get a figure when the paper names the electoral ward.
Latest signed papers
Annual accounts and the Annual Audit Report. IAR is not the AAR. If a paper is unpublished we print NOT PRINTED — not a guess.
Annual Audit Report
2025/26 · true and fair (IAR; standalone AAR not printed)Usable reserves stock £158m. Source: Audit Scotland.
Audited annual accounts
2025/26 accounts hub
Ten-year audit series · 10/10 published
Usable reserves stock only. Blank years are not published — never zero. Awards are not payments.
| Year | Opinion | Usable reserves | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015/16 | unqualified | £100.004m | AAR |
| 2016/17 | unqualified | NOT PRINTED | AAR |
| 2017/18 | NOT PRINTED | NOT PRINTED | AAR |
| 2018/19 | unqualified | NOT PRINTED | AAR |
| 2019/20 | unqualified | NOT PRINTED | AAR |
| 2020/21 | unqualified | NOT PRINTED | AAR |
| 2021/22 | unqualified | NOT PRINTED | AAR |
| 2022/23 | unqualified | NOT PRINTED | AAR |
| 2023/24 | unqualified | £91.279m | AAR |
| 2024/25 | unqualified | £153.607m | AAR |
| 2025/26 | true and fair (IAR; standalone AAR not printed) | £158m | NOT PRINTED |
Honest gaps
What is unpublished, and who to ask. Missing is not zero. Kind: gap.
Usable reserves stock £ not clearly extractable for 2017/18
gap
usable_reserves_gbp left blank (missing ≠ zero; deltas ignored) Ask: Aberdeen City finance / Audit Scotland AAR.
Audit opinion wording not clearly captured for 2017/18
gap
audit_opinion blank pending clearer printed phrase Ask: Audit Scotland AAR.
Usable reserves stock £ not clearly extractable for 2018/19
gap
usable_reserves_gbp left blank (missing ≠ zero; deltas ignored) Ask: Aberdeen City finance / Audit Scotland AAR.
Usable reserves stock £ not clearly extractable for 2019/20
gap
usable_reserves_gbp left blank (missing ≠ zero; deltas ignored) Ask: Aberdeen City finance / Audit Scotland AAR.
Usable reserves stock £ not clearly extractable for 2020/21
gap
usable_reserves_gbp left blank (missing ≠ zero; deltas ignored) Ask: Aberdeen City finance / Audit Scotland AAR.
Usable reserves stock £ not clearly extractable for 2021/22
gap
usable_reserves_gbp left blank (missing ≠ zero; deltas ignored) Ask: Aberdeen City finance / Audit Scotland AAR.
Usable reserves stock £ not clearly extractable for 2022/23
gap
usable_reserves_gbp left blank (missing ≠ zero; deltas ignored) Ask: Aberdeen City finance / Audit Scotland AAR.
Gold layers
Held from official papers. Missing layers are not published — still to find. A blank is not a zero. Awards are not payments. R07 supplier-paid+count and R08 spend-over-£500 stay not published until a public register or a returned FOI exists.
- R01 Audited annual accounts last 5 years (PDF + URL)Held
- R02 External AAR last 5 years (Audit Scotland / appointed auditor)Held
- R03 Current year revenue estimates — service netsHeld
- R04 Prior year service budget vs actualHeld
- R05 Latest annual procurement reportHeld
- R06 Live contracts register extractHeld
- R07 FOI: supplier name + total paid + transaction countnot published
- R08 Does the council publish spend-over-£500 / payments data?not published
- R09 Group entities + latest accountsHeld
- R10 Related-party payments noteHeld
- R11 Senior rem + exit packagesHeld
- R12 Integration Joint Board accounts + auditHeld
Official doors
- Website: www.aberdeencity.gov.uk
- mygov: organisation page
- WhatDoTheyKnow: aberdeen_city_council
- GSS / SNS: S12000033
- Audit Scotland: latest annual audit
- FOI mailbox: [email protected]
Plain money
City totals live on the council desk. They are not a ward budget.
No public paper we hold names an electoral-ward £ pot for this council. City totals on Investigate are not a split onto the wards. Blank is not zero.
Adult Disability Payment
13,310 people in receipt on 31 January 2026 — a council total, not a ward split. Residual DWP PIP on some ward health pages is a different stock.
See the council deskChildren and schools
Scotland pupil census, EAL and placing-request stock live on Government. This street desk does not invent a school-roll or a waiting list. Ward pages may show Census 2022 qualifications of adults — that is not pupils.
Open Government childrenAudit in English
- 2025/26 · Audited Annual Accounts 2025/26
Year 1 Apr 2025–31 Mar 2026. Approved Audit, Risk and Scrutiny 30 June 2026. Printed: Cost of Services (net) £727.327m; usable reserves £158m; General Fund balanced; HRA breakeven. Uncommitted General Fund £15.2m. Not a ward split.
- 2025/26 · Independent auditor’s report (inside the signed accounts)
Michael Oliphant FCPFA, Audit Director, Audit Scotland, 28 July 2026. Nothing to report by exception. Separate Audit Scotland Annual Audit Report 2025/26 was not on audit.scot as at 14 Aug 2026.