Issue - meetings

To consider, and if considered appropriate, to pass the following resolution to exclude the public from the meeting during the consideration of items of business containing exempt information:-

Meeting: 14/03/2013 - Audit Board (this committee has been combined with the Audit, Standards & Governance Committee and no longer meets) (Item 54)

Exclusion of the public

"RESOLVED that under Section 100 I of the Local Government Act 1972, as amended, the public be excluded from the meeting during the consideration of the following item of business on the grounds that it involves the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in Part I of Schedule 12A to the Act, as amended, the relevant paragraphs of that part being as set out below, and that it is in the public interest to do so:-

 

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Minutes:

The Board considered whether or not to exclude the public from the meeting for the consideration of Agenda Item No. 17, Internal Audit Monitoring Report of the Service Manager of the Worcestershire Internal Audit Shared Service, Appendices 3 and 4.

 

Councillor Mrs. H. J. Jones expressed her concern and suggested to Members that legal advice be sought from the Head of Service for Legal, Equalities and Democratic Services.

 

The Executive Director, Finance and Corporate Resources responded to Members questions and to the concerns raised by Councillor Mrs. H. J. Jones and in doing so highlighted that; in agreement with the report author, Mr. A. Bromage, Service Manager, Worcestershire Internal Audit Shared Service, she was comfortable that the specific pages in Appendix 3 to the report, as agreed by Board Members, be redacted and placed in the public domain.

 

RESOLVED that the public not be excluded from the meeting during the consideration of Agenda Item No. 17, Internal Audit Monitoring Report, Appendix 3, pages 125 to 126, 129 to 133 and 142 to 156, and that this part of the report be placed in the public domain.