Agenda item

The Committee considered a report of the Council’s External Auditors (Mazars) as a result of their audit of the Pension Fund’s accounts for the year ended 31 March 2021 (for copy see file of minutes). Sharon Liddle of Mazars presented the Audit Completion Report and provided an update of the report

In response to question from Councillor J Atkinson relating to business continuity, the Pensions Manager, Paul Cooper noted that issues were not pension specific, rather a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic and working from home and he would bring back further information to a future meeting.

Resolved:

a)        That the External Auditor’s report following the audit of the Statement of Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2021, including the summary of misstatements detailed in section 6 of the report, be noted;

b)        That the content of the Management Representation letter (Appendix A), Auditors report on the Council’s Statement of Accounts (Appendix B) and the Consistency report to be included in the Pension Fund Annual report (Appendix C), be noted.