Agenda and minutes

Audit Committee - Wednesday 25 March 2015 5.30 pm

Venue: Committee Room

Contact: Lyndsey Parnell  Senior Elections and Members' Services Officer

Items
No. Item

66.

Apologies for Absence and Substitutions.

Minutes:

None received.

67.

To approve, as a correct record, the minutes of the meeting held on 16 December 2014. pdf icon PDF 54 KB

Minutes:

RESOLVED:

 

That the minutes of the above meeting, having been circulated, be approved as a correct record, subject to the following amendment:

 

1.     That Item 63 be amended to read:

 

“Consideration was given to a report of the Service Manager, Audit and Risk Management, which had been circulated prior to the meeting, providing Members with the opportunity to influence the audit risk assessment for the annual audit plan 2015-16 and to confirm whether any additional areas of audit work need to be considered.

 

Councillor Barnfather requested that Contract Management, in relation to the Arnold Leisure Centre and Bonington Theatre contract, be included in the 2015-16 audit plan.”

 

 

 

 

68.

Declaration of Interests.

Minutes:

None.

69.

2014-15 Audit Plan KPMG Report pdf icon PDF 390 KB

Report of Service Manage Audit & Assest Management

Additional documents:

Minutes:

Tom Tandy, of KPMG, presented the report, which had been circulated prior to the meeting, and provided headline information to Members, along with an outline of the transfer of functions of the Audit Commission following its cessation.

 

RESOLVED:

 

To note the report.

70.

Corporate Risk Scorecard pdf icon PDF 143 KB

Report of Service Manager Audit & Asset Managment

Minutes:

The Service Manager, Audit and Asset Management, presented the report, which had been circulated prior to the meeting, updating members of the Audit Committee on the current level of assurance that can be provided against each corporate risk.

 

RESOLVED:

 

To note the report.

 

 

71.

Follow-up of Previous Audit Recommendations pdf icon PDF 92 KB

Report of Service Manager – Audit & Asset Management.

Minutes:

The Service Manager, Audit and Asset Management, presented the report, which had been circulated prior to the meeting, informing Members of departmental progress in the implementation of Internal Audit recommendations and identifying to Members where additional action needs to be considered in relation to any outstanding recommendations.

 

RESOLVED:

 

To note the report.

 

72.

Summary of Audit Activity pdf icon PDF 95 KB

Report of Service Manager Audit & Asset Management

Minutes:

The Service Manager, Audit and Asset Management, presented the report, which had been circulated prior to the meeting, summarising the outcome of Internal Audit activity for the period January to March 2015.

 

RESOLVED:

 

To note the report.

 

73.

Annual internal Audit Plan 2015/16 pdf icon PDF 106 KB

Report of Service Manager Audit & Asset Management

Minutes:

The Service Manager, Audit and Asset Management, presented the report, which had been circulated prior to the meeting, informing Members of planned audit activity for 2015-16.

 

RESOLVED:

 

To note the report.

 

74.

Payments of Compensation pdf icon PDF 95 KB

Report of Service Manager - Revenues and Benefits

Minutes:

The Service Manager, Audit and Asset Management, presented the report, which had been circulated prior to the meeting, notifying the Committee of two offers of payments of compensation to complainants as part of a settlement to their complaints.

 

RESOLVED:

 

To note the report.

 

75.

Any other item which the Chair considers urgent.

Minutes:

None.