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Dumfries & Galloway

145,860 people · 12 wards

NRS mid-2024 population estimates (Table 4), published 14 Aug 2025; as at 30 June 2024

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Completeness · enhanced

No ward-named pot — NOT PRINTED on every ward.

How this badge is counted

Counts from live ward doors — not a second map. Same count as Completeness. Missing is not zero.

This week in this council

1 dated public sitting 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 If a paper is unpublished we print NOT PRINTED — not a guess.

Ten-year audit series · 10/10 published

Usable reserves stock only. Blank years are not published — never zero. Awards are not payments.

YearOpinionUsable reservesSource
2015/16unqualifiedNOT PRINTEDAAR
2016/17unqualifiedNOT PRINTEDAAR
2017/18unqualifiedNOT PRINTEDAAR
2018/19unqualifiedNOT PRINTEDAAR
2019/20unqualifiedNOT PRINTEDAAR
2020/21IAR NOT PRINTED — AAR unmodifiedNOT PRINTEDAAR
2021/22IAR NOT PRINTED — AAR unmodifiedNOT PRINTEDAAR
2022/23unqualified£101.157mAAR
2023/24unqualified£117.399mAAR
2024/25unqualified£93.009mAAR

Honest gaps

What is unpublished, and who to ask. Missing is not zero. Kind: gap.

  • Usable reserves stock £ not clearly extractable for 2015/16

    gap

    usable_reserves_gbp left blank (missing ≠ zero; deltas ignored) Ask: Dumfries and Galloway finance / Audit Scotland AAR.

  • Usable reserves stock £ not clearly extractable for 2016/17

    gap

    usable_reserves_gbp left blank (missing ≠ zero; deltas ignored) Ask: Dumfries and Galloway finance / Audit Scotland AAR.

  • Usable reserves stock £ not clearly extractable for 2017/18

    gap

    usable_reserves_gbp left blank (missing ≠ zero; deltas ignored) Ask: Dumfries and Galloway finance / Audit Scotland AAR.

  • Usable reserves stock £ not clearly extractable for 2018/19

    gap

    usable_reserves_gbp left blank (missing ≠ zero; deltas ignored) Ask: Dumfries and Galloway finance / Audit Scotland AAR.

  • Usable reserves stock £ not clearly extractable for 2019/20

    gap

    usable_reserves_gbp left blank (missing ≠ zero; deltas ignored) Ask: Dumfries and Galloway finance / Audit Scotland AAR.

  • Usable reserves stock £ not clearly extractable for 2020/21

    gap

    usable_reserves_gbp left blank (missing ≠ zero; deltas ignored) Ask: Dumfries and Galloway finance / Audit Scotland AAR.

  • Audit opinion wording not clearly captured for 2020/21

    gap

    audit_opinion blank pending clearer printed phrase Ask: Audit Scotland AAR.

  • Usable reserves stock £ not clearly extractable for 2021/22

    gap

    usable_reserves_gbp left blank (missing ≠ zero; deltas ignored) Ask: Dumfries and Galloway 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 actualnot published
  • R05 Latest annual procurement reportnot published
  • R06 Live contracts register extractnot published
  • 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 notenot published
  • R11 Senior rem + exit packagesnot published
  • R12 Integration Joint Board accounts + auditHeld

Official doors

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.

See how Dumfries & Galloway spends

Adult Disability Payment

14,230 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.

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Children 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.

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