Issue - meetings

The External Auditor presented the annual report for the year ending 31 March 2023, and shared that the audit opinion was unchanged, that being  to issue an unqualified audit opinion. The only change since the previous meeting was a further 200k misstatement based on the results of the pension audit fund, due to valuation issues of their investment assets. There were no significant weaknesses identified by the External Auditor in the Council’s governance arrangements. He thanked the finance team for their hard work and invited Members to ask any questions.

Members discussed the report and the chair passed on his thanks to Mazars.

RESOLVED That the contents of the External Auditor’s annual report for 2022/23 be accepted.