Meeting Details

    Audit committee
    24 Nov 2020 - 15:00
    Occurred
    • Documents
    • Attendance
    • Visitors
    • Declarations of Interests

    Documents

    Agenda

    Standard Items
    1 Apologies

     

    To receive apologies for absence

     

     

    2 Public questions/petitions


    To receive questions / petitions from the public.

    Please note that all questions must be received by the committee officer detailed on the front of the agenda by 10am on Thursday, 19 November 2020.

    Petitions must be received by the committee officer detailed on the front of the agenda by 10am on Monday, 23 November 2020.

    For guidance on submitting public questions or petitions please see appendix 1 of the council's constutition.

     

    3 Declarations of interest


    (Please note that it is the responsibility of individual members to declare an interest prior to the item if they arrive late for the meeting)

     

    4 pdf Minutes (225Kb)

     

    To approve the accuracy of the minutes of the meeting held on 14 July 2020

     

     

    Purpose -

    To advise members of the work of internal audit, completed between July to October 2020 and the progress against the internal audit plan.

    The role of internal audit is to provide the audit committee and management with independent assurance, on the effectiveness of the internal control environment.

    The 2020-21 Audit Plan was approved by the audit committee in March 2020.

     

     

    Purpose - To provide an update on progress in relation to risk management. 

     

     

    Purpose - This report presents the Annual Governance Statement (AGS) for 2019-20 for consideration by the audit committee prior to sign off by the chief executive and leader of council.

     

     

     

    Purpose - This report presents the 2019-20 audited statement of accounts, the Audit Results Report, and draft letter of management representation

     

    9 Exclusion of the public

     

    Consideration of exclusion of the public.

     

    Private Items
    10* Management responses to Internal audit reviews - Norwich Regeneration Company Limited (NRL), and, Contract Management - Housing Repairs and Responsive Maintenance
    • This report is not for publication because it would disclose information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information) as in para 3 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972.

    Attendance

    NameReason for Sending ApologySubstituted By
    Councillor Adam Giles Councillor Jane Sarmezey
    NameReason for AbsenceSubstituted By
    No absentee information has been recorded for the meeting.

    Declarations of Interests

    Member NameItem Ref.DetailsNature of DeclarationAction
    Councillor Keith Driver10* Management responses to internal audit reviewsCouncil tenantOtherNo action - recorded in the minutes
    Councillor Paul Kendrick10* Management responses to internal audit reviewsNRL board directorOtherNo action - recorded in the minutes
    Councillor Martin Peek10* Management responses to internal audit reviewsCouncil tenantOtherNo action - recorded in the minutes

    Visitors

    Also in attendance at the above meeting were:

    Mark Hodgson, external auditor


    ___ Members of public expressed a desire to address the meeting.

    No members of the public