Meeting Details

Meeting Summary
Audit and Governance Committee
10 Nov 2025 - 18:30 to 20:10
  • Documents
  • Attendance
  • Visitors
  • Declarations of Interests

Documents

Agenda

Meeting Details
MeetingDetails

Members are invited to an Extraordinary Meeting of the Audit and Governance Committee

to be held in the Deben Conference Room, East Suffolk House, Melton

on Monday, 10 November 2025 at 6.30pm

Open To The Public
1 Apologies for Absence and Substitutions
2 Declarations of Interest

Members and Officers are invited to make any declarations of interests, and the nature of that interest, that they may have in relation to items on the Agenda and are also reminded to make any declarations at any stage during the Meeting if it becomes apparent that this may be required when a particular item or issue is considered.

3 Exempt/Confidential Items

It is recommended that under Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act 1972 (as amended) the public be excluded from the meeting for the following items of business on the grounds that they involve the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in Paragraph 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Act.     

Exempt/Confidential
4 Freeport East - ESC’s Accountable Body role and progress against objectives
  • Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information).
  1. ES-2582 Freeport East - ESC’s Accountable Body role and progress against objectives
    • Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information).
    1. ES-2582 Appendix A
      • Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information).
    2. ES-2582 Appendix B
      • Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information).
    3. ES-2582 Appendix C
      • Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information).

Attendance

Attended - Other Members
Apologies
NameReason for Sending ApologySubstituted By
Councillor Tess Gandy  
Councillor George King Councillor Peter Byatt
Absent
NameReason for AbsenceSubstituted By
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.

Visitors

Officers present: Chris Bally (Chief Executive), Chris Bing (Head of Legal and Democratic Services), Michelle Burdett (Strategic Director),  Lorraine Fitch (Democratic Services Manager), Siobhan Martin (Head of Internal Audit Services), Lorraine Rogers (Chief Finance Officer), Alli Stone (Democratic Services Officer), Paul Wood (Head of Economic Development & Regeneration)

Others present: Steve Beel (CEO, Freeport East), Marie Finbow (Programme Manager, Freeport East), Mark Lemmon (Chair, Freeport East)