Issue - meetings

The Executive Director for Corporate Services and Transformation introduced a report, which had been circulated in advance of the meeting, concerning the method of appointment for the Council’s External Auditors.

On the motion of Councillor S Spencer, duly seconded it was

RESOLVED to:

1)    Note the details of the requirement for the Council to procure a new external auditor for the audit of the Council’s accounts for 2023-24 and the four years thereafter;

2)    Note the options available in respect of how to make the appointment and Audit Committee’s recommendation that they support the preferred option of opting-in to the sector-led body, Public Sector Audit Appointments (PSAA), to undertake the procurement on behalf of the Council; 

3)    Approve that the Council becomes an opted-in authority, a decision which must be made by Full Council before 11 March 2022, which is the closing date to give notice to PSAA of the Council’s acceptance of its invitation to participate in a sector-led approach to procurement; and 

4)    Note the recent Government Letter on Local Audit Arrangements, which instructs PSAA to progress its proposed procurement strategy for the next round of local audit contracts from 2023-24.