Meeting Details

Meeting Summary
Audit Committee
30 Jun 2022 - 10:00 to 12:05
Occurred
  • Documents
  • Attendance
  • Visitors
  • Declarations of Interests
  • Webcast

Documents

Agenda

Public Agenda
1 Notice of Recording/Webcast

The Chair to advise/meeting to note that this meeting will be webcast for live or subsequent broadcast via the Council's meeting You Tube site (www.youtube.com/channel/UCT2kT7ZRPFCXq6_5dnVnYlw) and that members of the press/public may record and take photographs except where there are confidential or exempt items.

 

 

(i) To note that the Council at its meeting on 24 May 2022 appointed the Audit Committee, Chair and Members to serve on the Committee for the period ending with the Annual Meeting of the City Council in 2023.

 

Labour Group (5):-  

 

Councillors Fred Grindrod (Chair), Shabrana Hussain, Amar Khan, Miranda Perks and Shafique Shah.

 

Conservative Group (2):-

                                           

Councillors Meirion Jenkins and Bruce Lines.

 

Liberal Democrat Group (1):-

 

Councillor Paul Tilsley.

 

(ii) To elect a Deputy Chair, for the purpose of substitution for the Chair if absent, for the period ending with the Annual Meeting of the City Council in 2022.

To note the Committee’s functions as set out in the attached schedule. Including an introduction to the Audit Committee Independent Advisor (Andrew Hardingham)

4 Declarations of Interests

Members are reminded that they must declare all relevant  pecuniary and non pecuniary interests arising from any business to be discussed at this meeting. If a disclosable pecuniary interest is declared a Member must not speak or take part in that agenda item. Any declarations will be recorded in the minutes of the meeting.

 

 

5 Apologies
To receive any apologies.
6 Exempt Information – Possible Exclusion of the Press and Public

a) To consider whether any matter on the agenda contains exempt information within the meaning of Section 100I of the Local Government Act 1972, and where it is considered that the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information, for the reasons outlined in the report.

 

b) If so, to formally pass the following resolution:-

 

RESOLVED – That, in accordance with Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972 as amended by the Local Government (Access to information) (Variation order) 2006, the public be excluded from the meeting during consideration of those parts of the agenda designated as exempt on the grounds that it is likely, in view of the nature of the business to be transacted or the nature of the proceedings, that if members of the press and public were present there would be disclosure to them of exempt information.


TO FOLLOW

 

To confirm and sign the minutes of the last meeting of the Committee held 26 April and 30 May 2022.

(55 minutes allocated) (1010 – 1105)

 

Verbal discussion

 

The Cabinet Member Transport with the Strategic Director City Operations, Assistant Director City Operations, Assistant Director Inclusive Growth and the PFI Contract Manager

(10 minutes allocated) (1105 - 1115)

 

Report of the Assistant Director Audit and Risk Management

(10 minutes allocated) (1115 – 1125)

                                       

Report of the External Auditors

(5 minutes allocated) (1125 – 1130)

 

To note the report of the Director of the Adults and Social Care Directorate.

 

To approve the schedule of dates for the Committee's meetings during 2022/23 at 1400 hours.

 

2022                                                               

Thursday 30 June at 1000 hours           

 Tuesday 19 July 

 Wednesday 28 September 

 Tuesday 18 October 

 Tuesday 22 November 

 

2023

 Tuesday 31 January 

 Tuesday 14 February 

 Tuesday 28 March

 Tuesday 25 April 

14 Other Urgent Business
To consider any items of business by reason of special circumstances (to be specified) that in the opinion of the Chair are matters of urgency.
15 Authority to Chair and Officers
Chair to move:-

'In an urgent situation between meetings, the Chair jointly with the relevant Chief Officer has authority to act on behalf of the Committee'.

Attendance

Attended - Other Members
Name
No other member attendance information has been recorded for the meeting.
Apologies
NameReason for Sending Apology
Councillor Meirion Jenkins 
Councillor Miranda Perks 
Absent

Declarations of Interests

Member NameItem Ref.DetailsNature of DeclarationAction
Councillor Paul Tilsley10Director of Birmingham Airport and Chairman of the Audit CommitteeNon-PecuniaryNone

Visitors

Also in attendance at the above meeting were:

  • Councillor Liz Clements - Cabinet Member for Transport 
  • Kevin Hicks, Assistant Director City Operations
  •  Phil Edwards, Assistant Director Inclusive Growth
  • Jon Roberts, Grant Thornton, External Auditors 
  • Nicola CoombeGrant Thornton, External Auditors
  • Sarah Dunlavey, Assistant Director Audit & Risk Management 
  • John Williams (AD) Adult Social Care 
  • Sara Pitt, AD Finance
  • Mohammed Sajid, Interim Head of Financial Strategy
  • Craig Price, Principal Group Auditor
  • Satinder Sahota, Interim City Solicitor & Monitoring Officer

Webcast



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