Committee details

Membership 

Terms of Reference / Areas of Responsibility

14 Councillors – Politically Balanced.

At least 1 Co-opted Lay Member with voting rights.

•           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