Issue - meetings

The Leader of the Council submitted a report presenting the 2011/12 Annual Governance Statement and the 2012/13 Annual Governance Statement Action Plan.  The supplementary agenda showed the version of the Annual Governance Statement with tracked changes detailing the changes made to the wording of the current document.

Members were advised that, as part of the Council’s drive to increase the transparency of its spending, the Authority published all payments on a weekly basis as opposed to the Government’s expectation that spending over £500 was disclosed.  This limit had recently come down to £250.

The Director of Internal Services advised that the first 4 issues detailed in the Annual Governance Statement Action Plan for 2012/13 had been carried over from last year and there were 5 additional issues that had been added to the Action Plan.

Councillor J Ranger commented that the wording in respect of the appointment of the Leader and Executive Members should be reworded in the Annual Governance Statement detailed at Essential Reference Paper ‘B’.

The Committee received the report.

RESOLVED – the comments on the proposed Annual Governance Statement and Action Plan be passed to the Audit Committee.