Audit Committee Annual/External Reviews
Dear Greenwich Borough Council,
CIPFA Guidance on Local Authority Audit Committees states that “Recommended practice is for audit committees to review and assess themselves annually or to seek an external review.”
We realise that the committee with audit related responsibilities are not always called ‘Audit Committee’. Please can you confirm what the title of this committee is within your local authority and answer the following questions in relation to that committee.
a) Internal Annual Review of Audit Committee
For each of the last five financial years please provide me with a copy of the audit committee’s annual review of its work. Please state the date the review was published and how it was made public at the time.
b) External Review of Audit Committee
Please confirm the most recent date that an external review of the audit committee was sought, who undertook that review, when and where it was published and provide a copy of the review.
Yours faithfully,
Megan Waugh
Research for Action
Dear Ms Waugh,
FOI request: FOI-981
Thank you for your request dated 13/12/2023
Your request will be answered by 10/01/2024
If you have any queries about this request, please contact me, quoting the
reference number above.
Yours sincerely,
David White
Head of Information, Safety and Community Services
Directorate of Communities, Environment and Central
Royal Borough of Greenwich
* 3^rd Floor, The Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, London, SE18
6HQ
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Dear Ms Waugh
FOI request: FOI-981
Thank you for your request dated 12/12/2023 in which you ask:
Please can you confirm what the title of this committee is within your
local authority and answer the following questions in relation to that
committee.
a) Internal Annual Review of Audit Committee For each of the last five
financial years please provide me with a copy of the audit committee’s
annual review of its work. Please state the date the review was published
and how it was made public at the time.
b) External Review of Audit Committee
Please confirm the most recent date that an external review of the audit
committee was sought, who undertook that review, when and where it was
published and provide a copy of the review.
Our response is as follows:
Audit & Risk Management Panel
Year Meeting / Date Link
2022/23 Council - 28 June 2023 [1]CMIS > Calendar of Meetings
(royalgreenwich.gov.uk) (Item 12)
2021/22 Council – 21 July 2022 Link: [2]CMIS > Calendar of Meetings
(royalgreenwich.gov.uk) (Item 12)
2020/21 Council – 21 July 2021 [3]CMIS > Calendar of Meetings
(royalgreenwich.gov.uk) (item 12)
2018/19 and 2019/20 – no published reports
The Royal Borough of Greenwich commissioned the Centre for Governance and
Scrutiny (CfGS) to advise and support its members and officers in the
review of the Council’s scrutiny function. This included looking at the
link between scrutiny and audit.
Overview & Scrutiny Committee – 31 October 2023. Link:
[4]https://committees.royalgreenwich.gov.uk...)
(see appendix A to item 7 Para 3.8 – 3.10)
If you have any queries about this correspondence, please contact me,
quoting the reference number above.
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by emailing [5][email address], or by post at Customer Contact,
Information Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow,
SK9 5AF.
Yours sincerely,
David White
Head of Information, Safety and Community Services
Directorate of Communities, Environment and Central
Royal Borough of Greenwich
* 3^rd Floor, The Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, London, SE18
6HQ
8 [6]www.royalgreenwich.gov.uk
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From: foi <[Greenwich Borough Council request email]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2023 8:43 AM
To: 'Research for Action' <[FOI #1058254 email]>
Cc: foi <[Greenwich Borough Council request email]>
Subject: FOI-981: Freedom of Information request - Audit Committee
Annual/External Reviews
Dear Ms Waugh,
FOI request: FOI-981
Thank you for your request dated 13/12/2023
Your request will be answered by 10/01/2024
If you have any queries about this request, please contact me, quoting the
reference number above.
Yours sincerely,
David White
Head of Information, Safety and Community Services
Directorate of Communities, Environment and Central
Royal Borough of Greenwich
* 3^rd Floor, The Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, London, SE18
6HQ
8 [7]www.royalgreenwich.gov.uk
ü Please consider the environment before printing this email
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