Agenda

Meeting:

Audit Committee

To:

Councillors Cliff Lunn (Chair), George Jabbour (Vice-Chair), Alyson Baker, Philip Broadbank, Andy Brown, David Chance, Felicity Cunliffe-Lister, Michelle Donohue-Moncrieff, Neil Swannick, Peter Wilkinson, Mr David Marsh, Mr David Portlock and Mrs Vicky Buckley.

Date:

Monday, 16 March 2026

Time:

1.30 pm

Venue:

Brierley Room - County Hall

 

Business

 

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1.  

Apologies for absence

 

 

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2.  

Exclusion of the public

 

 

Members are recommended to exclude the public from the meeting during consideration of each of the items of business listed in Column 1 of the following table on the grounds that they each involve the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in the paragraph(s) specified in column 2 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972 as amended by the Local Government (Access to information)(Variation) Order 2006.

 

 

Item number on the agenda

 

Paragraph Number

3b

Paragraphs 1 and 3

 

 

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3a

Minutes of the meeting held on 15 December 2025

 

(Pages 5 - 16)

 

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<AI4>

3b

Confidential minutes of the meeting held on 15 December 2025

 

(Pages 17 - 20)

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<AI5>

4.  

Declarations of interest

 

 

</AI5>

<AI6>

5.  

Public questions or statements

 

 

Members of the public may ask questions or make statements at this meeting if they have given notice and provided the text to Democratic Services (DemocraticServices.Central@northyorks.gov.uk) no later than midday on Wednesday, 11 March 2026, three working days before the meeting takes place. Each speaker should limit themselves to three minutes on any item. 

 

If you are exercising your right to speak at this meeting, but do not wish to be recorded, please inform the Chair who will instruct those taking a recording to cease whilst you speak.

 

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<AI7>

6.  

Progress on issues raised by the Committee

 

(Pages 21 - 24)

</AI7>

<AI8>

7.  

External Audit Progress Report (NYC and NYPF)

 

(Pages 25 - 38)

</AI8>

<AI9>

8.  

Counter Fraud Framework

 

(Pages 39 - 76)

</AI9>

<AI10>

9.  

2026/27 Internal Audit Work Programmes

 

(Pages 77 - 96)

</AI10>

<AI11>

10.  

Internal Audit and Counter Fraud Progress Report

 

(Pages 97 - 124)

</AI11>

<AI12>

11.  

Scarborough Waterpark Internal Audit Review

 

(Pages 125 - 128)

</AI12>

<AI13>

12.  

Statement of Final Accounts 2024/25

 

(Pages 129 - 130)

</AI13>

<AI14>

13.  

Accounting Policies

 

(Pages 131 - 134)

</AI14>

<AI15>

14.  

Risk Management Progress Report

 

(Pages 135 - 164)

</AI15>

<AI16>

15.  

Assessment of effectiveness of governance arrangements - Resources and Central Services

 

(Pages 165 - 190)

</AI16>

<AI17>

16.  

Annual Partnership Governance Report

 

(Pages 191 - 210)

</AI17>

<AI18>

17.  

Business Continuity Annual Report

 

(Pages 211 - 214)

</AI18>

<AI19>

18.  

Treasury Management and Capital Strategies

 

(Pages 215 - 270)

</AI19>

<AI20>

19.  

Work programme

 

(Pages 271 - 272)

</AI20>

<AI21>

20.  

Any other items

 

 

Any other items which the Chair agrees should be considered as a matter of urgency because of special circumstances.

 

</AI21>

<AI22>

21.  

Date of next meeting

 

 

Monday, 22 June 2026 at 1:30pm.

 

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Members of the public are entitled to attend this meeting as observers for all those items taken in open session.

 

You may also be interested in subscribing to updates about this or any other North Yorkshire Council committee.

 

Recording is allowed at Council, committee and sub-committee meetings which are open to the public. Please give due regard to the Council’s protocol on audio/visual recording and photography at public meetings. We ask that any recording is clearly visible to anyone at the meeting and that it is non-disruptive.

 

Anyone wishing to record is asked to contact the Democratic Services Officer (details below) prior to the start of the meeting.

 

Contact Details

 

Enquiries relating to this agenda and meeting please contact:

David Smith, Senior Democratic Services Officer

E-mail: David.Smith1@northyorks.gov.uk

E-mail: DemocraticServices.Central@northyorks.gov.uk

Tel: 01756 706235

Website: www.northyorks.gov.uk

 

 

Barry Khan

Assistant Chief Executive

(Legal and Democratic Services)

County Hall

Northallerton

 

Friday, 6 March 2026

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