Meeting Details

Meeting Summary
Audit and Scrutiny Committee
26 Mar 2019 - 10:00 to 12:30
Occurred
Meeting open to the public.
  • Documents
  • Members Attending
  • Others Attending
  • Declarations of Interests

Documents

Agenda

Agenda Items
1 Declarations of Interest

Members are requested to give notice of any declarations of interest in respect of items of business on the Agenda.

The accuracy of the Minutes of the meeting of the Audit and Scrutiny Committee held on 29 January 2019 will be confirmed and the Minutes signed in accordance with Paragraph 7 (1) of Schedule 7 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (copy enclosed).

  1. pdf Minute (57Kb)

Submit report by the Head of Democratic Services on the terms of a petition received in respect of Seafield House, Ardrossan (copy enclosed).

Submit report by the Executive Director (Economy and Communities) on the feedback received from the Scottish Government on the Planning Performance Framework 7 (copy enclosed). 

Submit report by the Head of Democratic Services on the work the Council is doing in preparation for Brexit and the risks to North Ayrshire associated with a Negotiated Deal and a No Deal Brexit (copy enclosed).

  1. pdf Brexit (69Kb)

Submit report by Caroline Whyte, Chief Finance and Transformation Officer on the projected financial outturn for the financial year as at December 2018 (copy enclosed).

Submit report by the Executive Director (Finance and Corporate Support) on the External Audit plan for 2017/18 (copy enclosed).

Submit report by the Executive Director (Finance and Corporate Support) on the findings of Internal Audit work completed during January and February 2019 (copy enclosed).

 

Submit report by the Executive Director (Finance and Corporate Support) on the progress made by Council services in implementing the agreed actions from Internal Audit and Corporate Fraud reports as at 31 December 2018 (copy enclosed).

Submitted report by the Executive Director (Finance and Corporate Support) on the proposed Internal Audit Plan for 2019 – 2020 (copy enclosed).

11 Urgent Items

Any other items which the Chair considers to be urgent.

12 Exclusion of the Public - Para 1

Resolve in terms of Section 50(A)4 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, to exclude from the Meeting the press and the public for the following item of business on the grounds indicated in terms of Paragraph 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 7A  of the Act.

 

Non Disclosure of Information

In terms of Standing Order 19 (Disclosure of Information), the information contained within the following report is confidential information within the meaning of Section 50A of the 1973 Act and shall not be disclosed to any person by any Member or Officer.

Submit report by the Executive Director (Finance and Corporate Support) on the findings of corporate fraud investigations completed between January and February 2019 (copy enclosed).

Sederunt
Audit and Scrutiny Committee
Marie Burns (Chair)
Margaret George (Vice Chair)
Joy Brahim
Alan Hill
Tom Marshall
Donald Reid
John Sweeney

Additional Meeting Documents

Members Attending

Attended - Other Members
Name
No other member attendance information has been recorded for the meeting.
Apologies
NameReason for Sending Apology
No apology information has been recorded for the meeting.
Absent
NameReason for Absence
No absentee information has been recorded for the meeting.

Declarations of Interests

Member NameItem Ref.DetailsNature of DeclarationAction
No declarations of interest have been entered for this meeting.

Others Attending

Also in attendance at the above meeting were:

L. Friel, Executive Director, P. Doak, Senior Manager (Internal Audit, Risk and Fraud) and B. Quigley, Team Manager (Systems) (Finance and Corporate Support); S. Brown, Director (Health and Social Care Partnership); C. McAuley, Head of Service (Economic Growth) and J. Miller, Senior Manager Planning (Economy and Communities); and A. Fraser, Head of Democratic Services and A. Little, Committee Services Officer (Chief Executive’s Service).


Martin Clark (Deloitte LLP) and Daniel McGreish (Petition – Seafield House, Ardrossan)



___ Members of public expressed a desire to address the meeting.