The Director of Corporate Services presented the report which was brought at the request of the Committee to update on the progress on the accounts. The Director of Corporate Services gave an overview as detailed in the report of the action plan to meet the tighter deadlines to give assurance that this would be met on time.

In response to questions officers advised that they had committed to bring another update to the next meeting of Standards and General Purposes and that a large amount of preliminary work had been undertaken including a scheduled meeting with External Audit in the week following the meeting and regular detailed conversations were progressing and detailed plans were in place.

RESOLVED:

1.    That the Committee approved the audited Statement of Accounts, including the Pension Fund accounts.