Agenda

To take any questions or statements from members of the Public.

To receive declarations of any Disclosable Pecuniary Interests or other registrable or non-registrable interests from Members in respect of any item to be considered at the meeting.

The Committee is asked to confirm as a true record the Minutes of the Meeting of the Committee held on the 6 February 2025 (attached) and to authorise the Chair to sign them.

This report details Stage 1 and Stage 2 complaints received by the Council from 01 April 2024 to 31 December 2024.

This report provides Audit & Scrutiny Committee with an update on the work undertaken by Financial Strategy Advisory Group with respect to the Council’s Treasury Management activity over the past 12 months.

To report on the Council’s activities relating to surveillance under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA) for 2024.

This report presents the Annual Report of the Audit and Scrutiny Committee 2024-2025 in accordance with the requirement of Paragraph 7.2 of Annex 4.6 of the Council’s Operating Framework. It covers the work of the Committee between March 2024 and February 2025, and following agreement by the Committee, will be submitted to the next available agenda for Full Council.

The appendix to this report provides an overview of the council’s performance with respect to its 2024-25 annual plan objectives, key performance indicators, corporate risks, committee risks, and annual governance statement actions.

This report presents the Committee with its annual Work Programme.

This report provides the Audit & Scrutiny Committee with the Internal Audit Charter 2025/26 and the Internal Audit Plan for 2025/26 (Q1/2).

Under Section 100(A)(4) of the Local Government Act 1972, the Committee may pass a resolution to exclude the public from the Meeting for Part Two of the Agenda on the grounds that the business involves the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in paragraph 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Act (as amended) and that pursuant to paragraph 10 of Part 2 of the said Schedule 12A the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.

The purpose of this report is to provide an overview of internal audit activity against the assurance work completed in accordance with the approved audit plan (2024-25) and to provide an overview of the outstanding management actions.