Agenda

Audit and Governance Committee - Wednesday 11th December, 2024 3.00 pm

Venue: Committee Room - Bootle Town Hall, Trinity Road, Bootle, L20 7AE. View directions

Contact: Amy Dyson  Democratic Services Officer

Items
No. Item

1.

Apologies for absence

2.

Declarations of Interest

Members are requested at a meeting where a disclosable pecuniary interest or personal interest arises, which is not already included in their Register of Members' Interests, todeclare any interests that relate to an item on the agenda.

 

Where a Member discloses a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest, he/she must withdraw from the meeting room, including from the public gallery, during the whole consideration of any item of business in which he/she has an interest, except where he/she is permitted to remain as a result of a grant of a dispensation.

 

Where a Member discloses a personal interest he/she must seek advice from the Monitoring Officer or staff member representing the Monitoring Officer to determine whether the Member should withdraw from the meeting room, including from the public gallery, during the whole consideration of any item of business in which he/she has an interest or whether the Member can remain in the meeting or remain in the meeting and vote on the relevant decision.

 

 

3.

Minutes

Minutes of the meeting held on 4 September 2024 were approved at the Statement of Accounts meeting held on 20 November 2024

4.

Corporate Risk Management pdf icon PDF 345 KB

Report of Executive Director of Corporate Services and Commercial

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5.

DBS Checks for Elected Members pdf icon PDF 327 KB

Report of Executive Director of Corporate Services and Commercial

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6.

Financial Procedure Rules pdf icon PDF 298 KB

Report of Executive Director of Corporate Services and Commercial

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7.

Follow up of Audit Agreed Actions

Report of Executive Director of Corporate Services and Commercial

8.

Policy and Review of Whistleblowing Referrals 2023 - 2024 pdf icon PDF 301 KB

Report of Executive Director of Corporate Services and Commercial

9.

Risk and Audit Service Performance pdf icon PDF 431 KB

Report of Executive Director of Corporate Services and Commercial

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10.

Treasury Management Position to September 2024 pdf icon PDF 622 KB

Report of Executive Director of Corporate Services and Commercial

11.

Work Programme Update Report pdf icon PDF 370 KB

Report of Executive Director of Corporate Services and Commercial

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12.

Exclusion of Press and Public

The following report(s) are not Exempt / Confidential but include appendices which contain exempt information as defined in Paragraph 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A under Section 100A (4) of the Local Government Act 1972. Namely,

 

·       Item 13 Unrecoverable Debts over £10,000 – Appendices 1, 2, 3 and 4

 

Members are therefore requested to consider whether or not they wish to discuss any matters referred to in the exempt appendices and accordingly, consider passing the following resolution:

 

That, under Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act, 1972, the press and public be excluded from the meeting for any items of business which might involve the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in Paragraph 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Act. The Public Interest Test has been applied and favours exclusion of the information from the Press and Public.

13.

Unrecoverable Debts over £10,000 pdf icon PDF 440 KB

Report of the Executive Director – Corporate Services and Commercial

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