The government will not immediately back a key recommendation of the Redmond review that a single body should be created to manage and regulate local authority audit, it announced this afternoon. The Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government said the recommendation of Sir Tony Redmond in his review of council audit clashed with its intention not to create new arms-length bodies and that it did not with to “recreate” the Audit Commission. It will examine whether an existing body working in the field can take on a system leadership role. However extra money to support local authority audit was announced in communities secretary Robert Jenrick's government’s response to Sir Tony’s review of the effectiveness of local authority audit published in September.