Audit Committee Annual/External Reviews
Dear Trafford Metropolitan 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
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Annual/External Reviews
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Dear Megan Waugh
Thank you for your email of the 12th December 2023 where you requested information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
The information you requested is enclosed.
Title of Committee – Accounts and Audit Committee
a)The Accounts and Audit Committee reviews the outcomes from its work each year and produces an annual report, which is firstly reviewed by the Committee and is then presented at a Full Council meeting each year by the Accounts and Audit Committee Chair. Details of each report are on the Council website: Reports for the last 5 years are contained through the links below:
ACCOUNTS & AUDIT COMMITTEE 2022/23 (trafford.gov.uk) Published June 2023
ACCOUNTS & AUDIT COMMITTEE 2021/22 (trafford.gov.uk) Published July 2022
ACCOUNTS & AUDIT COMMITTEE 2020/21 (trafford.gov.uk) Published July 2021
ACCOUNTS & AUDIT COMMITTEE 2019/20 (trafford.gov.uk) Published July 2020
ACCOUNTS & AUDIT COMMITTEE 2018/19 (trafford.gov.uk) Published June 2019.
b) There has not been a specific external review of the Accounts and Audit Committee. However, as part of its annual audit work, the External Auditor recently reported as part of its annual report on the work and role of the Committee with comments included on page 18 of their Annual Report. External Auditor's annual report issued Nov 2023
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