Issue - meetings

To consider the Audit Committee Annual Report 2014/15.

The Chair of the Audit Committee (Councillor David Sedgwick) submitted the Audit Committee Annual Report for 2014/15 (copies of which had been circulated) summarising the work of the Audit Committee during the 2014/15 Municipal Year.

RESOLVED – That the report be noted.

To consider a report of Councillor Daniel Hawthorne (Chair of the Audit Committee 2014/2015)

The purpose of the report is to:-

• demonstrate how the Audit Committee has fulfilled its terms of reference during the financial year and how it is fully committed to helping to improve the Council’s governance and control environments during the year ahead.

• outline how the committee’s activities during the financial year are designed to make a positive contribution to the continual improvement of governance arrangements across the Council, as well as performing the statutory roles as identified in the Constitution.

A representative of the Corporate Director for Corporate and Support Services submitted a report (copies of which had been circulated) demonstrating how the Audit Committee had fulfilled its terms of reference during the financial year and how it was fully committed to helping to improve the Council’s governance and control environments during the year ahead. The report also outlined how the committee’s activities during the financial year were designed to make a positive contribution to the continual improvement of governance arrangements across the Council, as well as performing the statutory roles as identified in the Constitution.

RESOLVED – That the Annual Report be approved and that it be submitted to the Council Meeting for approval.