Issue - meetings

To receive a report from the Devon Assurance Partnership providing an update on the Internal Audits that have taken place since the last meeting.

The Committee had before it, and NOTED, a report * from the Devon Assurance Partnership providing a progress update on the Internal Audit Reports that had taken place since the last meeting. It also provided an update in terms of the status of outstanding audit recommendations.

The following was highlighted within the report:

·       The assurance level for each of the service areas audited was relayed including and an explanation provided in each case.

·       There were still a number of outstanding audit recommendations but that was not unusual for a local authority.

Due to the confidential nature of the questions and discussion which followed the Chair indicated that it was necessary for the Committee to pass the following resolution to exclude the press and public having reflected on Article 12 12.02(d) (a presumption in favour of openness) of the Constitution. This decision was required because consideration of this matter in public may disclose information falling within one of the descriptions of exempt information in Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972. The Committee would need to decide whether, in all the circumstances of the case, the public interest in maintaining the exemption, outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.

RESOLVED: That, in accordance with Part I of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972, the press and public be excluded from the meeting for this item, for the reason set out below:

·       Information under paragraph 3 (contains information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person including the authority holding that information).

(Proposed by Cllr E Buczkowski and seconded by Cllr G Czapiewski)

Note: * Report previously circulated.