Minutes of the Audit Committee on 14 January 2010

Manchester City Council Minutes Audit Committee 14 January 2010 Audit Committee thMinutes of the meeting held on 14 January 2010 Present: Councillor Watson – In the Chair Councillors Clayton, Isherwood, Lomax, Morrison, Trotman and Swannick. Mr Alan Caldwell and Mr John Tench Also Present:: Councillor Priest – Executive Member for Finance and Human Resources; Sarah Howard and Gavin Blackstone (Grant Thornton) AC/10/1 Minutes Decision rdTo approve as a correct record the minutes of the meeting held on 3 December 2009. AC/10/2 External Audit recommendations – progress monitoring Consideration was given to a report of the Chief Executive providing a quarterly progress report on the implementation of outstanding recommendations from external audit work across the Authority by the Audit Commission and Grant Thornton during the last three audit years. Members expressed satisfaction that the report presented the Committee with an improved picture of overall activity, such that they were able to be significantly more assured about the range of measures in hand and the realistic targets for completion of the work. However, the measures as reported remained un-audited and full assurance would only be obtained when the Council’s auditors had undertaken follow-up audits, but the auditors did agree that the information in the report would be used as a useful starting point for that follow-up work. Discussion ensued ...