Issue - meetings

Report of the Monitoring Officer is circulated.

Councillor Fleur de Rhé-Philipe Cabinet member for Finance, Performance and Risk presented the draft Annual Governance Statement for the period 2009-10.  It was noted that it was a statutory requirement to produce such a statement.  The document had already been considered by Audit Committee and Standards Committee who had made various amendments.  This was now the final version which sought cabinet’s comments before final approval was sought from the Audit Committee at its meeting on 30 September 2010.

Resolved:

That Cabinet:

That Cabinet notes the draft Annual Governance Statement for

2009/10 and notes that the document would be revised to take

account of the ongoing work by the Assurance Group. It would

then be presented to the Audit Committee for final approval for

publication by 30 September 2010.

Reason for Decision

To prepare the AGS 2009/10 for publication in accordance with the requirements of the Audit and Accounts Regulations.