Agenda item - External Auditor's Audit Findings Report 2023-24

RESOLVED –

That the Audit, Standards, and General Purposes Committee note the findings set out in the 2023/24 Audit Findings Report and ask questions of the auditor as necessary and raise any other matters relevant to the audit of the 2023/24 financial statements.

21.1    The committee considered the audit findings report that set out the findings of the 2023/24 audit by the council’s appointed external auditor, Grant Thornton. It included the key messages arising from the audit of the financial statements and the results of work undertaken to assess the Authority’s arrangements to secure value for money in its use of its resources.

21.2    Councillors Gauge, Guilmant, Meadows, and West asked questions and contributed to the debate of the report.

21.3    RESOLVED –

That the Audit, Standards, and General Purposes Committee note the findings set out in the 2023/24 Audit Findings Report and ask questions of the auditor as necessary and raise any other matters relevant to the audit of the 2023/24 financial statements.