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Report of Assistant Director of Finance (Section 151 Officer) 

Purpose of report

This report presents the annual report of the Accounts, Audit and Risk Committee for the year 2024/25. It has been prepared to enable the committee to demonstrate to Council how it has fulfilled its terms of reference.

Recommendations

Council resolves:

1.1       To note the contents of the Annual Report of the Accounts, Audit & Risk Committee 2024/25.

The Assistant Director of Finance (Section 151 Officer) submitted a report which presented the annual report of the Accounts, Audit and Risk Committee for the year 2024/25. It had been prepared to enable the committee to demonstrate to Council how it has fulfilled its terms of reference.

Resolved

(1)            That the Annual Report of the Accounts, Audit & Risk Committee 2024/25 be noted.

Report of Assistant Director of Finance (Section 151 Officer) 

Purpose of report

This report presents the draft annual report of the Accounts, Audit and Risk Committee for the year 2024/25. It has been prepared to enable the committee to demonstrate to Council how it has fulfilled its terms of reference.

Recommendations

The Accounts, Audit and Risk Committee resolves to:

1.1           Review the draft annual report, agree any required amendments to its content, and arrange for it to be finalised in preparation for the Accounts, Audit and Risk Committee Chair’s presentation to Council.

Resolved

(1)    That the draft annual report be finalised in preparation for the Accounts, Audit and Risk Committee Chair’s presentation to Council.

The Assistant Director of Finance (Section 151 Officer) submitted the draft annual report of the Accounts, Audit and Risk Committee for the financial year 2024/25. It had been prepared to enable the Committee to demonstrate to Council how it had fulfilled its terms of reference.

In introducing the report, Connor Munro, Assistant Director – Audit Assurances at Veritau advised the Committee that the report summarised the work that had been undertaken by the Committee over the last twelve months. The report detailed how the Council had discharged its responsibility over the year at its meetings in line with its terms of reference as set out in the constitution. The Committee was advised that under accountability arrangements a self-assessment of its effectiveness needed to be undertaken in the next municipal year.

In response to a question regarding the PR9 planning appeal, the Committee was advised that a report was in the process of being drafted and it was the intention to bring this to the next meeting of the Committee on the 28 May 2025.

Resolved

(1)    That the draft annual report be finalised in preparation for the Accounts, Audit and Risk Committee Chair’s presentation to Council.