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Governance Committee - 16 April 2025

Home Governance Committee – 16 April 2025

Date: Wednesday 16 April 2025

Time: 10:00 am

Location: Boardroom, Murley Moss, Kendal, LA9 7RL.

Agenda

Business Part One

  1. Apologies – To receive and record apologies from members of the Authority who cannot attend.
  2. Minutes – To confirm the Minutes of the meeting held on 21 February 2025.
  3. Chair’s Announcements
    The Chair to announce to all attendees –

    • the fire safety instructions; and
    • the meeting is being livestreamed and a digital recording of the meeting is made.
  4. Declarations of Interest – Members should declare any registrable interests or disclosable pecuniary interests and state the nature of those interests so it can be recorded in the minutes.  These interests are described in the Code of Conduct adopted by the Authority on 20 October 2021.
  5. Questions – To answer any questions raised under Standing Order 16(2) relating to the business of the Committee.
  6. Public Participation – There are no public questions, petitions or deputations relating to the business of the Committee for this meeting.
  7. Corporate and Business Plan Risks Update
  8. Risk Management Strategy
  9. External Audit Plan
  10. Annual Governance Review for 2024/25
  11. External Audit Risk Assessment: Questions of Management 2024/25
  12. Governance Committee Self Assessment for 2024/25

The Committee will consider the following RESOLUTION:

Under Section 100(A)(4) of the Local Government Act, 1972 the public be excluded from the meeting for the following items.  This is because exempt information, as defined in Schedule 12A of the Act, may be disclosed during discussions.

Business Part Two

13. Internal Audit Update

Papers

16 April 2025 Risk Management Strategy – Annex 1
16 April 2025 Risk Management Strategy
16 April 2025 Questions of Management – Annex 12025_04_16-Questions-of-Management-Annex-1
16 April 2025 Governance Committee Self-Assessment 24/25
16 April 2025 External Audit – Questions of Management 24/25
16 April 2025 External Audit Plan – Annex 1
16 April 2025 External Audit Plan
16 April 2025 Update on Corporate and Business Plan Risks
16 April 2025 Annual Governance Review
Minutes of Governance Committee held on 21 February 2025

Access to Information - Local Government Act 1972 (As amended)

Agenda and Reports

Anyone can have a copy of the agenda and non-confidential reports before the meeting. Reports can be e-mailed as PDFs on request.

Background Papers

Physical copies of background papers will be available for viewing at Murley Moss upon request. Papers can be emailed as PDFs on request. We cannot make background papers available for confidential papers.