Issue - meetings

Report of the Service Director Strategic Finance & Commercialisation seeking to review the draft Annual Governance Statement 2016-17 and to note the status of the 2015-16 Action Plan, attached.

The Committee received and noted the report detailing the Annual Governance Statement which the Council was required to develop and publish in accordance with the Accounts and Audit Regulations.  The report detailed the extent to which the Council had complied with its Code of Corporate Governance including monitoring and evaluation of the effectiveness of its governance arrangements in the year and on any planned changes in the forthcoming period. 

The Committee also noted in accordance with CIPFA Guidance, Governance Committee should be provided with early sight of a draft of the Annual Governance Statement noting that the final version will be signed as part of the Statement of Accounts.

RESOLVED:

(i)  That the draft 2016/17 Annual Governance Statement as detailed in Appendix 1 of the report be noted; and

(ii)  That the status of the 2015/16 Annual Governance Statement Action Plan as detailed in Appendix 2 of the report be noted.