Issue - meetings

To consider a report of the Corporate Director for Corporate and Support Services.

The attached report sets out the proposed arrangements for completion of the Annual Governance Statement for 2014/15. The Statement will be prepared by the Corporate Governance Group which is chaired by the Corporate Director, Corporate and Support Services.

The Audit Committee are invited to consider and comment on the report.

Officer Contact: John Pearsall Tel:474 4033 or alternatively email: john.pearsall@stockport.gov.uk

A representative of the Corporate Director for Corporate and Support Services submitted a report (copies of which had been circulated) outlining the proposed arrangements for completion of the Annual Governance Statement for 2014/15. The Statement would be prepared by the Corporate Governance Group which was chaired by the Corporate Director, Corporate and Support Services.

It was reported that the Annual Governance Statement was an annual statutory requirement to support the Annual Statement of Accounts and that a draft statement would be submitted to the Committee at the June 2015 meeting.

RESOLVED – That the report be noted.