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Statement of the Council’s and Chief Executive’s responsibilities<br />
Under section 35(2) and (3) of the National Lottery<br />
etc. Act 1993 (as amended), The English Sports<br />
Council is required to prepare a statement of<br />
accounts for the financial period in the form and<br />
on the basis directed by the Secretary of State for<br />
Digital, Culture, Media and Sport with the consent<br />
of HM Treasury.<br />
The financial statements are prepared on an<br />
accruals basis and must show a true and fair view<br />
of the state of affairs of The English Sports<br />
Council’s Lottery distribution activities at the<br />
period end and of its income and expenditure and<br />
cash flows for the financial period.<br />
In preparing the financial statements The Council<br />
is required to:<br />
• Observe the accounts direction issued by the<br />
Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media<br />
and Sport, including the relevant accounting<br />
and disclosure requirements, and apply the<br />
suitable accounting policies on a consistent<br />
basis<br />
• Make judgements and estimates on a<br />
reasonable basis<br />
• State whether the applicable accounting<br />
standards have been followed, and disclose<br />
and explain any material departures in the<br />
financial statements and<br />
• Prepare the financial statements on the going<br />
concern basis, unless it is inappropriate to<br />
presume that The Council will continue in<br />
operation.<br />
The Accounting Officer for the Department for<br />
Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, has designated<br />
the Chief Executive of The English Sports Council<br />
as the Accounting Officer for The Council. Her<br />
relevant responsibilities as Accounting Officer,<br />
including her responsibility for the propriety and<br />
regularity of public finances for which she is<br />
answerable, and for the keeping of proper<br />
records, are set out in “Managing Public Money”,<br />
issued by the HM treasury and in the Financial<br />
Directions issued by the Secretary of State for<br />
Digital, Culture, Media and Sport under section<br />
26(3) of the National Lottery etc. Act 1993 (as<br />
amended).<br />
The Accounting Officer has taken all the steps she<br />
ought to have taken to make herself aware of any<br />
relevant audit information and to establish that<br />
The English Sport Council’s auditors are aware of<br />
that information.<br />
The Accounting Officer confirms that the annual<br />
report and accounts as a whole is fair, balanced<br />
and understandable and takes personal<br />
responsibility for the annual report and accounts<br />
and the judgments required for determining that it<br />
is fair, balanced and understandable.<br />
Jennie Price CBE<br />
Nick Bitel<br />
Chief Executive and Accounting Officer<br />
The English Sports Council<br />
21 June 20<strong>18</strong><br />
Chair<br />
The English Sports Council<br />
21 June 20<strong>18</strong><br />
The English Sports Council National Lottery Distribution Fund Accounts for the year ended 31 March 20<strong>18</strong> 95
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