Auditor General for Wales

The Auditor General for Wales (Welsh: Archwilydd Cyffredinol Cymru) is the public official in charge of the Wales Audit Office, the body responsible for auditing the Welsh Government, its public bodies, National Health Service bodies and local government in Wales. The Auditor General for Wales is responsible for auditing £20 billion of taxpayers' money each year.

Text of statute as originally enactedRevised text of statute as amendedText of the Public Audit (Wales) Act 2013 as in force today (including any amendments) within the United Kingdom, from legislation.gov.uk.

It is a statutory appointment made on the nomination of the Senedd (Welsh Parliament; Welsh: Senedd Cymru), in accordance with the provisions of the Public Audit (Wales) Act 2013 (anaw 3).

The first full-time Auditor General for Wales, Jeremy Colman, was appointed on 1 April 2005 for an initial five-year term subsequently extended in 2009 for a further three years. Colman resigned in February 2010 after an internal investigation at the Wales Audit Office and subsequently pleaded guilty to possession of indecent images of children.

Interim Auditor General, Gillian Body, took responsibility for running the office prior to the appointment of Huw Vaughan Thomas, from 1 October 2010. In the aftermath of the jailing, the chair of the Assembly's public accounts committee commented that the office would recover and that a "golden future lay ahead" for the Office.

The Auditor General and the Wales Audit Office both operate under the trademark "Audit Wales".