Meeting Details

Meeting Summary
Audit and Governance Committee
13 Jul 2026 - 18:30 to 21:34
  • Documents
  • Attendance
  • Visitors
  • Declarations of Interests

Documents

Agenda

Meeting Details
MeetingDetails

Members are invited to a Meeting of the Audit and Governance Committee

to be held in the Conference Room, Riverside,

on Monday, 13 July 2026 at 6:30 PM

 

This meeting will be broadcast to the public via the East Suffolk YouTube Channel at https://youtube.com/live/t5P6psjNPfQ

Open To The Public
1 Apologies for Absence and Substitutions
To note any apologies for absence or 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 pdf Minutes (109Kb)
To agree as a correct record the minutes of the meeting held on the 23 March 2026
Report of the Cabinet Member with responsibility for Resources and Value for Money 
Report of the Cabinet Member with responsibility for Resources and Value for Money
Report of the Cabinet Member with responsibility for Resources and Value for Money
Report of the Cabinet Member with responsibility for Resources and Value for Money
Report of the Cabinet Member with responsibility for Resources and Value for Money  
Report of the Cabinet Member with responsibility for Resources and Value for Money and Assistant Cabinet Member for Resources and Value for Money
 
Report of the Cabinet Member with responsibility for Corporate Services (Digital, Customer Services, HR and Assets)
Report of the Cabinet Member with responsibility for Corporate Services (Digital, Customer Services, HR and Assets)
Report of the Cabinet Member with responsibility for Resources and Value for Money and Assistant Cabinet Member for Resources and Value for Money
Report of the Cabinet Member with responsibility for Resources and Value for Money
Report of the Cabinet Member with responsibility for Resources and Value for Money and Assistant Cabinet Member for Resources and Value for Money
Report of the Cabinet Member with responsibility for Resources and Value for Money and Assistant Cabinet Member for Resources and Value for Money
To note the committee's forward work programme
17 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 Paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Act.     

Exempt/Confidential
18 Minutes
  • Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information).
19 Follow up on Audit and Committee’s determination in relation to Code of Conduct complaint CC698570676 at its meeting on 16 February 2026
  • Information relating to any individual.
  • Information that is likely to reveal the identity of an individual.
  1. ES-2851 Follow up on Audit and Committee’s determination in relation to Code of Conduct complaint CC698570676
    • Information relating to any individual.
    • Information that is likely to reveal the identity of an individual.
    1. ES-2851 Appendix A
      • Information relating to any individual.
      • Information that is likely to reveal the identity of an individual.
    2. ES-2851 Appendix B
      • Information relating to any individual.
      • Information that is likely to reveal the identity of an individual.
20 Standards Matters, Declarations of Gifts and Hospitality and Review of Complaints 
  • Information relating to any individual.
  • Information that is likely to reveal the identity of an individual.
  1. ES-2852 Standards Matters Declarations of Gifts and Hospitality and Review of Complaints
    • Information relating to any individual.
    • Information that is likely to reveal the identity of an individual.
    1. ES-2852 Appendix A
      • Information relating to any individual.
      • Information that is likely to reveal the identity of an individual.
21 Recently Issued Internal Audit Reports (Exempt)
  • Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information).
  1. ES-2853 Recently Issued Internal Audit Reports (Exempt)
    • Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information).
    1. ES-2853 Appendix A
      • Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information).
    2. ES-2853 Appendix B
      • Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information).
    3. ES-2853 Appendix C
      • Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information).
    4. ES-2853 Appendix D
      • Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information).
    5. ES-2853 Appendix E
      • Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information).
    6. ES-2853 Appendix F
      • Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information).
    7. ES-2853 Appendix G
      • Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information).
    8. ES-2853 Appendix H
      • Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information).
    9. ES-2853 Appendix I
      • Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information).
    10. ES-2853 Appendix J
      • Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information).

Attendance

Apologies
NameReason for Sending ApologySubstituted By
Councillor George King  
Councillor Stephen Molyneux  
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 Bing (Head of Legal and Democratic Services and Monitoring Officer), Laura Fuller (Internal Audit Services Manager), Sandra Lewis (Head of Digital, Programme Management and Customer Services), Siobhan Martin (Head of Internal Audit), Sheila Mills (Corporate Fraud Manager), Danielle Patterson (Deputy Chief Finance Officer), Stacey Ransby (Performance & Risk Officer), Lorraine Rogers (Chief Finance Officer), Alli Stone (Democratic Services Officer), Ann Utting (Policy Manager)



Others present: Cllr Nasima Begum (Lowestoft Town Council), Ahmed Khalil (Senior Consultant, EY), Cllr John Murray (Lowestoft Town Council), David Riglar (Partner, EY)