Agenda, decisions and minutes

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Items
No. Item

1.

Declaration of interest

To receive any declaration of interest by any member or officer in respect of any item of business.

Minutes:

None received.

2.

Minutes of the Previous Meeting pdf icon PDF 455 KB

To present the minutes of the previous meeting of the Audit and Governance Committee held on 1 September, 2020.

Minutes:

The minutes of the meeting held on 1 September, 2020 were confirmed as correct.

 

 

3.

Statement of Accounts 2019/20 and ISA 260 Report pdf icon PDF 3 MB

·        To present the Statement of Accounts 2019/20.

 

·        To present the report of External Audit on the Financial Statements (ISA 260 Report)

Additional documents:

Minutes:

The report of the Director of Function (Resources)/Section 151 Officer highlighting the main issues arising since the draft Statement of Accounts was presented to the Audit and Governance Committee on 1 September, 2020 was presented.

 

Details of the main amendments to the draft accounts are set out in the Auditor’s Report (Appendix 3 of the report). All the amendments which have been agreed as requiring restatement by Deloitte have been processed and are within the Statement of Accounts.  The Director of Function (Resources)/Section 151 Officer reported that the draft Statement of Accounts were submitted to this meeting in July and thereafter in September and no material changes have been made to the Statement of Accounts.

 

Questions were raised by the Members of the Committee as follows:-

 

           Clarification was sought as two Page 58 of the Statement of Accounts under Note 34 – Officer’s Remuneration, it showed an employee was in the £120k plus bracket compared to maximum of £85k in last year’s Accounts.  Mr Ian Howse,  Deloitte said that the matter related to a severance package for a Head Teacher

           Reference was made that interest incurred since the draft Statement of Accounts has increased by £37k and clarification was sought whether it would affect the comprehensive income and expenditure table or even the declared underspend.  The Director of Function (Resources)/Section 151 Officer responded that the amendment may be an error at Note 44d itself and not within the actual Statement of Accounts.  He noted that he would respond to the anomaly in due course.

           Clarification was sought as to whether funding has been distrusted from the David Hughes’ Charity Trust to help young people within the Secondary Schools.  The Director of Function (Resources)/Section 151 Officer responded that whilst the David Hughes’ Charity Trust is mentioned within the Statement of Accounts the full report on the Accounts of the David Hughes’s Charity Trust will be reported to the Executive in November. The Portfolio Holder for Finance said that £276,400 has been transferred to the schools in 2019 towards learning coaches and that each Secondary School has received £8,560 towards grants for pupils. 

 

Mr Ian Howse, Deloitte wish to congratulate the Council on meeting the original statutory timetable for issuing draft accounts to a very high standard during the difficult period due to the Covid-19 pandemic.  He noted that the minor typographic amendments will be rectified before submission to the Authority’s full Council meeting.  Mr Howse, reported the External that a level of ‘materiality’ was set at £3.7m which would apply to any local authority in Wales and is based on annual expenditure.  He noted that some work is outstanding which was noted in paragraph 5 of the report and he referred to the completion and review of the Pensions Liability on receipt of IAS19 assurances from Pension Fund Auditor as well as conclusion in relation to McCloud and Goodwin cases.  Mr Howse said that the work that is outstanding will be completed before the full  ...  view the full minutes text for item 3.