Report on the audit of the Danish government's administration in 2024

18-08-2025

Report no. 21/2024

This report concerns 56 audits that Rigsrevisionen carried out in 2024. 

The purpose of the audits is either to assess whether a ministry complies with selected rules (compliance audit) or to assess whether a ministry has systems and processes that support economic, efficient or effective administration (performance audit). 

Rigsrevisionen assesses that the ministries have satisfactory administration in the majority of the audits. 

Rigsrevisionen has a critical statement concerning the Ministry of Higher Education and Science’s management of the development of the student administration IT system esas. 

Rigsrevisionen also refers in the report to a number of cases where the ministries have deficiencies in specific parts of their administration. The cases concern: 

  • the Ministry of Taxation’s debt collection of newly established tax arrears from businesses and payment of VAT compensation to associations etc.
  • several ministries’ procurement of IT services
  • several ministries’ IT security
  • the Ministry of Taxation’s and the Ministry of Justice’s handling of detained goods and drugs
  • the Ministry of Defence’s marine environmental preparedness in Greenland. 

Rigsrevisionen has initiated the report on its own initiative.

Read the introduction and conclusion (PDF)