Lancashire Combined Fire Authority
If you have any queries regarding the agenda papers or require any further information, please initially contact Diane Brooks on telephone number Preston (01772) 866720 and she will be pleased to assist.
Any persons present at the meeting may photograph, film or record the proceedings, during the public part of the agenda. Any member of the press and public who objects to being photographed, filmed or recorded should let it be known to the Chairman who will then instruct that those persons are not photographed, filmed or recorded.
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Apologies for Absence
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Disclosure of Pecuniary and Non-Pecuniary Interests
Members are asked to consider any pecuniary and non-pecuniary interests they may have to disclose to the meeting in relation to matters under consideration on the agenda.
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Minutes of the Previous Meeting (Pages 1 - 6)
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External Audit - Audit Plan 2022/23 (Pages 7 - 32)
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Internal Audit Monitoring Report (Pages 33 - 38)
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Internal Audit Annual Report 2022/23 (Pages 39 - 54)
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Annual Governance Statement (Pages 55 - 78)
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Accounting Estimates (Pages 79 - 86)
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Financial Statements Update (Pages 87 - 92)
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External Audit - Understanding How the Audit Committee Gains Assurance from Management (Pages 93 - 116)
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Date of Next Meeting
The next scheduled meeting of the Committee has been agreed for 10:00 hours on 26 September 2023 in the Main Conference Room, Service Headquarters, Fulwood.
Further meetings are: scheduled for 28 November 2023 and 28 March 2024 proposed for 25 July 2024
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Urgent Business
An item of business may only be considered under this heading where, by reason of special circumstances to be recorded in the Minutes, the Chairman of the meeting is of the opinion that the item should be considered as a matter of urgency. Wherever possible, the Clerk should be given advance warning of any Member’s intention to raise a matter under this heading.
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Exclusion of Press and Public
The Committee is asked to consider whether, under Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act 1972, they consider that the public should be excluded from the meeting during consideration of the following items of business on the grounds that there would be a likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in the appropriate paragraph of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972, indicated under the heading to the item.
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PART 2
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Urgent Business (Part 2)
An item of business may only be considered under this heading where, by reason of special circumstances to be recorded in the Minutes, the Chairman of the meeting is of the opinion that the item should be considered as a matter of urgency. Wherever possible, the Clerk should be given advance warning of any Member’s intention to raise a matter under this heading.
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