Issue - meetings

To set out the findings and recommendations of the external review of the 2011/12 accounts closure process.

The Chief Executive introduced the report on the findings and recommendations of the external review of the 2011/12 accounts closure process.

In response to a question from the Committee regarding whether the Cabinet Member for Resources should be in attendance, the Chief Executive confirmed that the Cabinet Member had seen the report but that, as made clear in the report, responsibility for the issues set out in the report belonged to the Head of Paid Service.

The Committee asked why the action plan did not include an explicit commitment to completing the accounts earlier, and it was confirmed that, while this was an aspiration, it was not felt to be deliverable until improvements had been made to the overall system.

RESOLVED

That the findings of the report be noted, and the proposed recommendations be endorsed.