Issue - meetings

Cabinet Member: Future Economy and Innovation

Forward Plan Ref: 2026/098

Non-Key Decision

Contact: Sadie Patamia, Corporate Governance Manager – Enterprise Oxfordshire (Sadie.Patamia@oxfordshire.gov.uk)

Report by Director of Economy and Place (SC8). 

This paper asks the Shareholder Committee to agree to the appointment of External Auditors for Enterprise Oxfordshire for 2025/26.

The Shareholder Committee is RECOMMENDED to:

a)    Agree the proposed appointment of Richardsons as External Auditors for Enterprise Oxfordshire (formally OxLEP) for financial Year 2025/26, as recommended by the company board.

The Chair introduced the item to the meeting and invited officers to present the report.

Officers noted that the proposed appointment of Richardsons as External Auditors was because the appointment of auditors for Enterprise Oxfordshire was a matter reserved to the Shareholder Committee. It had been approved by the Enterprise Oxfordshire Board and confirmed that, to follow good practice, the auditors were different to those of the County Council.

Councillor Fawcett moved and Councillor Gordon seconded the recommendations and they were approved.

RESOLVED to:

a)    Agree the proposed appointment of Richardsons as External Auditors for Enterprise Oxfordshire (formally OxLEP) for financial Year 2025/26, as recommended by the company board.