Agenda item

The Committee considered a report of the Chief Internal Auditor and Corporate Fraud Manager which sought approval to delegate authority to the Audit Committee for adopting the Annual Governance Statement (AGS) ( for copy see file of Minutes).

The Risk, Insurance & Governance Manager explained that this arrangement would avoid the requirement to report the AGS to full Council and would ensure that it was approved in a more timely manner.

Members discussed the issue of accountability and were assured that the whole Council were still responsible for approving the framework and would not resolve the Council of any responsibility.

The Risk, Insurance & Governance Manager advised that the AGS was a review of what had been done over the past year and that Corporate Governance was approved by all Members as part of the Constitution.

Upon a vote being taken it was resolved:-

That Constitution Working Group and Full Council approve the relevant Audit Committee function in the Constitution be amended from:

(a)      approval of the Council’s Annual Governance Statement and

recommend its adoption; to

(b)      adoption of the Council’s Annual Governance Statement.