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Agenda

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Items
No. Item

1.

Apologies pdf icon PDF 306 KB

To receive apologies for inability to attend the meeting (if any).

2.

Minutes pdf icon PDF 386 KB

To approve as a correct record the Minutes of the meetings of this Committee held on 20 October 2022 and 16 January 2023.

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3.

Declarations of Interest pdf icon PDF 304 KB

To remind Members of the need to record the existence and nature of any personal, disclosable pecuniary or other registrable interests in items on the agenda, in accordance with the Members’ Code of Conduct.

4.

Forward Plan pdf icon PDF 354 KB

Purpose: to consider the Forward Plan for the next 12 months.

5.

Internal Audit Update Report (GE4322) pdf icon PDF 238 KB

Purpose: to update the Committee on the status of Internal Audit work as at the end of quarter three of 2022/23.

 

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6.

External Audit Plan and Fee Financial Year 2021/22 (GE4310) pdf icon PDF 5 MB

Purpose: To inform members of the external audit plan for audit of the 2021/22 Statement of Accounts.

7.

Informing the audit risk assessment for West Berkshire Council 2021/22 pdf icon PDF 615 KB

Purpose: the report includes a series of questions on each of these areas and the response we have received from West Berkshire Council’s management. The Governance and Ethics Committee should consider whether these responses are consistent with its understanding and whether there are any further comments it wishes to make.

8.

Audit Committee Guidance (GE4285) pdf icon PDF 351 KB

Purpose: the purpose of the report is inform the committee that CIPFA (Chartered Institute of Public Finance & Accountancy) have released recent guidance on the role of audit committees. As this committee is the committee at West Berkshire Council that performs the function of an audit committee it is best placed to consider this report and comment upon it as well as complete the appended self-assessment.

The report is for the committee to consider and reflect upon the latest guidance and then assess where it complies or does not, and where it wishes to seek any changes, if it wishes to complete a self-assessment, as a result of undertaking the attached self-assessment at a future meeting.

 

 

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9.

Exclusion of Press and Public

RECOMMENDATION: That members of the press and public be excluded from the meeting during consideration of the following items as it is likely that there would be disclosure of exempt information of the description contained in the paragraphs of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972 specified in brackets in the heading of each item.

Part II

10.

Audit Committee Guidance (GE4285) : Part II Appendices

(Paragraph 3 - information relating to financial/business affairs of particular person)

 

Purpose: the purpose of the report is inform the committee that CIPFA (Chartered Institute of Public Finance & Accountancy) have released recent guidance on the role of audit committees. As this committee is the committee at West Berkshire Council that performs the function of an audit committee it is best placed to consider this report and comment upon it as well as complete the appended self-assessment.

The report is for the committee to consider and reflect upon the latest guidance and then assess where it complies or does not, and where it wishes to seek any changes, if it wishes to complete a self-assessment, as a result of undertaking the attached self-assessment at a future meeting.