Agenda item - External Auditor's Annual Report 2021-22

Report of External Audit

1)             That the Audit & Standards Committee notes the external auditor’s Annual (Value for Money) Report for the financial year ending 31 March 2022 including the auditor’s recommendations and management comments.

38.1      The Committee considered the external auditor’s (Grant Thornton’s) Annual Report for the year ending 31 March 2022 reports on the council’s value for money arrangements and comments on financial sustainability, governance arrangements and arrangements for securing economy, efficiency, and effectiveness in the use of its resources.

38.2      Councillors Yates, Atkinson, Meadows, Hugh-Jones and West asked questions and contributed to the debate of the report.

38.3      Resolved-

1)             That the Audit & Standards Committee notes the external auditor’s Annual (Value for Money) Report for the financial year ending 31 March 2022 including the auditor’s recommendations and management comments.