Agenda item

Tony Crawley, Information Assurance Manager, will attend for this item.

The Council’s Information Assurance Manager, Tony Crawley, attended to present KPMG’s Annual Audit Letter for 2015/16.

The report covered the audit of the Council’s financial statements and assessment of arrangements to achieve value for money in the use of resources. The arrangements were assessed against the criteria of financial resilience and securing economy, efficiency and effectiveness. The report advised that KPMG had issued an unqualified value for money conclusion for 2015/16 on 28 September, 2016, and had also concluded that the Council had proper arrangements in place to secure financial resilience and to challenge how it secures economy, efficiency and effectiveness.

RESOLVED -

That KPMG’s Annual Audit Letter for 2015/16 be received.