Issue - meetings

To receive a report from the external auditors on results of the audit undertaken on Hampshire County Council for the year ending 31 March 2017.

The Committee received the External Audit Results report (Item 9 in the Minute Book) and Maria Grindley and Adam Swain from Ernst & Young were welcomed to the meeting.

It was confirmed that a wash-up meeting undertaken following the audit had gone very well and there were no concerns over Hampshire County County meeting the July deadline in future years.

Committee asked whether analytics tools could be used for benchmarking against other organisations going forward and it was confirmed that they could be used for this and finding trends, as well as disparities.

There had been no significant findings this year and the only significant potential risk, being management override had no issues found.

Committee welcomed the strong audit report and thanked officers for their hard work and working so efficiently.

RESOLVED

The Audit Committee received the Audit Results Report 2016-17