Committee details

Committee and Membership 

Terms of Reference / Areas of Responsibility

Audit

21 Councillors – Politically Balanced

 At least 1 Co-opted Lay Member with voting rights

(See Rule 7.5.2 below)

•         Approve statement of accounts, income and expenditure and balance sheet;

•         Commissioning and Procurement Working Group (Joint Working Group with the People Scrutiny Committee)

•         External Audit Reports;

•         Finance Monitoring – Council wide;

•         Internal Audit Reports;

•         Oversee the authority's internal and external audit arrangements;

•         Performance Monitoring – Council wide, including workforce;

•         Review and assess risk management, internal control and corporate governance arrangements and make reports and recommendations on the adequacy and effectiveness of those arrangements;

•         Review and scrutinise the authority's financial affairs and make reports and recommendations on the authority's financial affairs;

•         Review the financial statements prepared by the authority.

•         Finance Scrutiny Panel

•         Making It Happen (Vision 2025)