Agenda and minutes

Audit Committee - Thursday 24th October, 2013 7.00 pm

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Items
No.	Item
1.	Minutes Minutes: RESOLVED – That the decisions of the meeting held on 24 July 2013 be approved as a correct record.
2.	Absence of Members (If any) Minutes: Apologies for absence were received from Councillor Mark Shooter (Councillor Tambourides substituting) and from Councillor Sury Khatri (Councillor Sowerby substituting).
3.	Declaration of Members' Disclosable Pecuniary interests and Non Pecuniary interests (If any) Minutes: There were none.
4.	Public Question Time (if any) PDF 53 KB Minutes: Details are appended of the questions asked of, and the answers given by the Chairman. Verbal responses were given to supplementary questions asked at the meeting. There were two questions (6 and 7) asked by Ms Musgrove that were not relevant to the agenda items. Ms Musgrove asked supplementary questions for both of these questions. The Chairman of the Audit Committee referred Ms Musgrove to the questions and answers already supplied as he felt that the answers sufficiently addressed the supplementary questions.
5.	Members' Item - Councillor Geof Cooke PDF 101 KB Additional documents: Members Item Appendix A (Service Provider’s Records and Audit) , item 5. PDF 45 KB Minutes: Councillor Geof Cooke introduced the Members’ Item that he had submitted. RESOLVED – That the report be noted and that it be noted that the Committee welcomes the offer of a letter of assurance from Capita as to the council’s rights of auditing services provided by Capita on behalf of the council.
6.	Internal Audit and Risk Management Quarter 2 2013-14 update and exceptions report PDF 103 KB Additional documents: Internal Audit Q2 and RM progress Report - Appendix , item 6. PDF 289 KB Minutes: The Head of Internal Audit and Anti-Fraud introduced the report. The Committee discussed the report and asked questions to the relevant Directors / Senior Officers on the recommendations that were rated at limited assurance or which had been only partially implemented. RESOLVED – That the progress against the Internal Audit Plan for 2013-14 to 30th September 2013 and the actions being taken to address some cases of non-implementation of high priority recommendations be noted.
7.	Corporate Anti-Fraud Team Interim Report 2013 PDF 91 KB Additional documents: Appendix A - CAFT Interim Report 2013 , item 7. PDF 78 KB Minutes: The Operational Assurance Assistant Director introduced the report. RESOLVED – That the report be noted.
8.	Progress Report The External Auditors, Grant Thornton LLP, will give a verbal update at the meeting. Minutes: Paul Hughes of Grant Thornton LLP (External Auditors) gave a short verbal update and assured the Committee that the audit process for 2013/2014 was drawing to a close and a written report will be brought to the next meeting of the Committee in January 2014.
9.	Any item(s) the Chairman decides are urgent Minutes: There were none.