The country’s largest multi-academy trust United Learning has applied to write off a “duplicate payment” of over £133,000 made to a company that subsequently went into liquidation.
The trust said it had exhausted efforts to recoup the payment made to H & E Mechanical and Electrical Limited in October 2017, and had applied to the Education and Skills Funding Agency for permission to write the amount off this year.
The trust’s accounts for the year to August 2022 said the £133,637 payment had been “appropriately authorised” and was “not expected to constitute a loss” because full repayment was anticipated.
However, the supplier went into liquidation in March 2019. Despite agreeing a payment plan and chasing the money, no payment was received.
