Audit and Risk Committee (March 2024)
Summary
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Agenda
1. Apologies for Absence and Substitutions
2. Minutes
To consider the minutes of the meeting held on 13 December 2023.
3. Declaration of Interests
All Members are reminded that they must disclose any interests they know they have in items of business on the meeting’s agenda and that they must do so at this point on the agenda or as soon as they become aware of the interest. If the interest is a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest they are also obliged to notify the Monitoring Officer within 28 days of the meeting.
4. Public Question Time
Any member of the public may ask a question or make a statement at this point in the meeting. Each person has two minutes and a maximum of 20 minutes is allotted to public questions/statements, which must be about matters for which the Committee is responsible.
The Chair may disallow a question if it is offensive, substantially the same as another question or requires disclosure of exempt or confidential information. If the question cannot be answered at the meeting a written response will be provided after the meeting.
Any member of the public who wishes to submit a question or statement to this meeting should email it to committees@chelmsford.gov.uk 24 hours before the start time of the meeting. All valid questions and statements will be published with the agenda on the website at least six hours before the start time and will be responded to at the meeting. Those who have submitted a valid question or statement will be entitled to put it in person at the meeting.
5. Announcements
6. External Audit of Accounts
7. Risk Management Report
8. Internal Audit Plan & Charter 2024
9. Accounting Policies
10. Audit & Risk Work Programme
11. Urgent Business
To consider any other matter which, in the opinion of the Chair, should be considered by reason of special circumstances (to be specified) as a matter of urgency.
Part 2 (Exempt Items)
To consider whether to exclude the public from the meeting during the consideration of the following matters, which contain exempt information within the category of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Act indicated:
12. Update on Audit Investigation
Category: Paragraph 7 of part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972
(Information relating to any action taken or to be taken in connection with the prevention, investigation, or prosecution of crime.)
Public interest statement: It is not in the public interest to release details of this report at present, on the grounds that it relates to information and action taken or to be taken in connection with the prevention, investigation, or prosecution of crime.