Agenda item - External Audit - Audit Findings Report 2024/25

RESOLVED –

That the Audit, Standards, and General Purposes Committee note the findings set out in the 2024/25 Audit Findings Report and ask questions of the auditor as necessary and raise any other matters relevant to the audit of the 2024/25 financial statements.

36.1    The committee considered the report of the External Auditor which sets out the findings of the 2024/25 audit by the council’s appointed external auditor, Grant Thornton. It includes the key messages arising from the audit of the financial statements and also sets out the arrangements for the auditor’s value for money work. The value for money results will be covered in more detail in the external auditor’s full annual report, which will be taken to the next Audit, Standards & General Purposes committee in January 2026.

36.2    Councillors Hewitt, Guilmant, Meadows, Robinson, and West asked questions and contributed to the debate of the report.

36.3    RESOLVED –

That the Audit, Standards, and General Purposes Committee note the findings set out in the 2024/25 Audit Findings Report and ask questions of the auditor as necessary and raise any other matters relevant to the audit of the 2024/25 financial statements.