Agenda item - Internal Audit Annual Report and Opinion 2025/26

RESOLVED –

That the Audit, Standards, and General Purposes Committee:

1)       Note the work undertaken and the performance of Internal Audit in 2025/6 and the annual opinion of the Chief Internal Auditor.

2)       Determine whether there are any matters that the Committee wishes to consider for the inclusion in the Council’s Annual Governance Statement.

3)       Agree that the Council’s arrangements for internal audit proved effective during 2025/26.

9.1      The Committee considered Internal Audit Annual Report and Opinion 2025/26 which gives an opinion on Brighton and Hove City Council’s control environment for the year from the 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026.

9.2      Councillors Atkinson, Guilmant, Helliwell, Hewitt, Parrott, and West asked questions and contributed to the debate of the report.

9.3      RESOLVED –

That the Audit, Standards, and General Purposes Committee:

1)       Note the work undertaken and the performance of Internal Audit in 2025/6 and the annual opinion of the Chief Internal Auditor.

2)       Determine whether there are any matters that the Committee wishes to consider for the inclusion in the Council’s Annual Governance Statement.

3)       Agree that the Council’s arrangements for internal audit proved effective during 2025/26.