Agenda

Members of the committee are invited to identify any disclosable pecuniary, other pecuniary or non-pecuniary interests relevant to the items on the agenda.

To receive and agree the minutes of the General Purposes Committee meeting held on the 3 March 2022.

The General Purposes Committee is requested to note the work completed by the Audit and Risk Management Service during the period 1 April 2021 to 30 April 2022 and the key themes and outcomes arising from this work and to provide feedback on the contents of the report.

The Committee is requested to endorse the work of the Counter Fraud team and to provide feedback on the contents of the report of officers.

The General Purposes Committee is requested to note the 2021-22 Annual Data Protection Officer report.

The report details the activity of the General Purposes Committee from 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022 and proposes it be approved for referral to Council.

The report provides an update to the General Purposes Committee on the Contract Procedure Rules, Waivers and Procurement Spend for the period April 2021 to March 2022. It also includes an update on Procurement Services and the implementation of the new procurement function.

The Committee is asked to receive the report which provides an update on the audit of the 2019/20 Statement of Accounts.

The report provides an update on the audit of the 2020/21 Statement of Accounts and Pension Fund together with an update on the work underway to produce the Council’s Accounts for 2021/22.

The Committee will receive a verbal update on the Statement of Accounts from representatives of the Council’s External Auditor, Binder Dijker Otte (BDO).

The Members are asked to note the 2022-23 Work Programme for the General Purposes Committee.

The future meeting dates of the General Purposes Committee, as agreed at Annual Council, are as follows:

Tuesday, 26 July 2022

Monday, 15 August 2022

Thursday, 20 October 2022

Thursday, 1 December 2022

Thursday, 19 January 2023

Thursday, 16 March 2023

To consider passing a resolution under Section 100(A) of the Local Government Act 1972 excluding the press and the public from the meeting for the items listed as part 2 on the agenda on the grounds that they involve disclosure of exempt information as defined in those paragraphs of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Act (as amended by the Local Government (Access to Information) (Variation) Order 2006).

To receive a confidential report from the Programme Director – Meridian Water.

(This item will contain exempt information as defined in Paragraph 3 (information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person – including the authority holding that information) of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972, as amended.)