To receive a report by the Council’s External Auditor, Mazars.

Karen Murray was in attendance on behalf of the Council’s external auditor, Mazars, to draw Members’ attention to key features of their current external audit. Work covering the financial year 2020/21 was essentially complete; planning for the 2021/22 audit was well under way, and it was intended to refer the Audit Strategy Memorandum to the Committee’s next meeting. The Committee’s attention was drawn to a number of useful information sources and documents, in particular in relation to ongoing consultation on the Accounting Code of Practice and Cyber Security good practice, both of which featured elsewhere on the agenda.

            RESOLVED – That the content of the report be noted.