Issue - meetings

Report of the Director for Finance and Corporate Services

The Chairman advised that Governance Scrutiny Group has an intense programme of substantive items for future meetings and asked officers if there is likely to be further delays with the Council’s Financial Statements. The Service Manager – Finance explained that the evenings agenda had been unusually large with delays to the signing off of the Statement of Accounts, adding that the Statement of Accounts is unlikely to go to the meeting scheduled for September 2023.

It was noted that this was the last meeting of Governance Scrutiny Group for 2022/23 and that the Group membership is likely to change after the elections in May and when the membership of scrutiny groups are announced at Annual Council on 25 May 2023.

The Chairman thanked all members and officers for their contribution at Governance Scrutiny Group over the last 12 months.

It was RESOLVED that the Group note the Work Programme for 2023-2024:

June 2023 (Date TBC)

·       Internal Audit Progress Report

·       Internal Audit Annual Report

·       Annual Fraud Report 2022/23

·       Annual Governance Statement (AGS)

·       External Audit Annual Plan

·       Annual Audit Letter and Value for Money Conclusion

·       Constitution Update

·       Capital and Investment Strategy Outturn 2022/23

·       Work Programme

September 2023 (Date TBC)

·       Internal audit Progress Report

·       Statement of Accounts

·       Annual Audit Report

·       Risk Management

·       Going Concern

·       Capital and Investment Strategy Monitoring Q1

·       Work Programme

November 2023 (Date TBC)

·       Internal Audit Progress Report

·       Capital and Investment Strategy Monitoring Q2

·       Work Programme

February 2024 (Date TBC)

·       Internal Audit Progress Report

·       Annual Audit Strategy

·       Risk Management Strategy 2024/25

·       Capital and Investment Strategy Monitoring Q3

·       Capital and Investment Strategy 2024/25

·       Work Programme