Issue - meetings

Report from the Chair of the Audit & Governance Committee.

The Annual Report sets out the role of the Audit & Governance Committee and summarises the work that has been undertaken both as a Committee and through the support of the Audit Working Group in 2023/24.

The Council is RECOMMENDED to note the contents of the Annual Report of the Audit & Governance Committee 2023/24.

Recommendation agreed.

Council had before it the Annual Report of the Audit & Governance Committee which summarised the work that had been undertaken both as a committee and through the support of the Audit Working Group in 2023/24.  Councillor Roz Smith, Chair of the Audit & Governance Committee, moved and Councillor Brad Baines, Deputy Chair of the Audit & Governance Committee, seconded that Council receive the report.

In response to a question from Councillor Susanna Pressel, Councill Roz Smith confirmed that the Council had its own internal fraud team which had shown exemplary work in providing detailed reports of all fraud investigations to the committee.

RESOLVED: (unanimously) to note the contents of the Annual Report of the Audit & Governance Committee 2023/24.