Issue - meetings

To consider the report of the Chief Finance Officer.

The Chief Finance Officer presented the report that set out the Annual Governance Statement to accompany the Council’s Statement of Accounts for 2017/18. He explained that the Council was required to prepare and publish the Annual Governance Statement by Regulation 4 of the Accounts and Audit (England) Regulations 2011. The Governance Statement reported on the Council’s performance the Code of Corporate Governance, which had been previously approved by the Audit and Governance Committee on 14 March 2018.

He discussed the report which had been updated to the show the updated Code of Corporate Governance principles, as set by CIPFA/SOLACE.

RESOLVED that the Audit and Governance Committee approve the Annual Governance Statement of Accounts for 2017/18 and be signed by the Chief Finance Officer and the Chair of the Audit and Governance Committee and

(1)  Be included within the Council’s Annual Statement of Accounts for 2017/18; and

(2)  Council to note and approve the Annual Governance Statement included within the Council’s Annual Statement of Accounts for 2017/18.