The
actions arising from the meeting on 22nd March 2022 were reviewed
and it was noted that:
- Minute 287: Information in respect of payments to staff was
still outstanding as issues of confidentiality were still being
considered. The Chair stated that the
Chief Executive was currently attempting to resolve this
issue.
- Minute 288: A formal external audit plan had not been presented
to the Committee in advance of meeting.
A late preliminary plan had been circulated to the Committee on the
day of the meeting. The Chair stated
that he did not expect the Committee to discuss this report as
there had been insufficient time to read it. It will be updated and
represented as an agenda item in September 2022
- Minute 288: A written response had been received from Deloitte
in response the Committee’s letter of complaint which would
be referred to under agenda item 8 (minute number 73). It would be
discussed by the Officers and the Chair and Vice Chair and
circulated to the Committee.
- Minute 289: It was agreed that discussion of the Outstanding
Management Actions document would be deferred until the Committee
had seen the whole of the Future Tandridge Programme.
- Minute 289: The amended Internal Audit Charter had been received
from Neil Pitman on the day of the meeting. This would not be discussed but would be reviewed
by the Committee and officers before the next Committee
meeting.
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Minute 289: The revision of the Audit & Scrutiny
Committee’s Terms of Reference had not been completed for
this meeting, so it will be presented at the 27th
September 2022 meeting.
- Minute 289: An additional spreadsheet from Melanie Thompson had
been provided to identify whether the number of open audit items
was decreasing. This had been received
on the day of the meeting and would be reviewed by the Committee in
due course.
- Minute 291: The Chair had received an email in respect of the
Council’s strategic plan priority of “Creating the
homes and infrastructure and environment we need”
However, this item would remain open until the Chair had spoken to
the Chair of the Housing Committee.
- Minute 291: A review of specific queries relating to the audit
plan was still ongoing.
- Minute 293: It was noted that a discussion was still ongoing in
respect of Deloitte’s scale fee and would be presented to the
Committee for approval in due course.
- Minute 293: Mapping the findings from the external audit for
19/20 against the Tandridge Finance Transformation programme had
been completed and will be circulated to the Committee for comment.
This review will be circulated by the Chief Finance Officer prior
to the next meeting of the A&S committee, to allow members of
the committee time to comment.
- Minute 294: The action in respect of the Annual Governance
Statement would be resolved when the item comes to the
27th September Committee meeting.
- Minute 296: The Chair had agreed to defer the Project Management
Review item and associated actions until the completion of the
Future Tandridge Programme.
- Minute 297: Details of the estimate of costs for dealing with
complaints had been included in the report at item 13 (minute 78)
of the agenda pack.