The Minister of Finance, Hon. Colm Imbert, MP, has noted a number of articles in the daily newspapers in recent days which would lead members of the public to believe that it is the Minister himself who prepares and submits the national public accounts to the Auditor General and that the Minister of Finance “backdated” the public accounts for 2023.

This is despite the fact that these same newspapers have reported the Minister’s previous public statements which make it clear that the national public accounts are prepared and submitted by public officers in the Treasury and not by him, and that no Minister of Finance has submitted these accounts to any Auditor General for decades, if ever.