Agenda item

6.1

The Head of Strategic Finance submitted a report enabling the Committee to demonstrate to the External Auditors and the wider audience that it had exercised the required oversight to meet the requirements of the International Standards on Auditing. The report drew together much of the work undertaken by the Committee in the past year.

6.2

Liz Stanley commented that she believed she was coming to the end of her term as an independent co-optee and did not believe the regulations allowed for this to be extended. Gill Duckworth, Director of Legal and Governance, confirmed that she would clarify this and report back to the Committee. Councillor Pat Midgley welcomed the role of independent co-optees on the Committee and commented that this demonstrated to the public the transparency of the Committee.

6.3

RESOLVED: That the Committee:-

(a)

confirms that the report gave an accurate reflection of the reports that they had received and considered throughout the year; and

(b)

confirms that they now had an overview of the Council’s systems of internal control so that they were now assured that they were fulfilling the requirements of “those charged with governance” under the International Auditing Standards.