For the committee to receive the external auditor’s annual audit letter for 2019/20 and determine whether further action or inclusion in the committee’s work programme is appropriate.

The committee received the external auditor’s annual audit letter for 2019/20.

As per the point made in minute 16, paragraph 2. above, a committee member re-iterated that the ‘Major contract performance update’ report had been considered by Cabinet on 29 July 2021 (minute 32 of 2021/22 refers), so a comment on agenda page 200 did not reflect the current situation.

Resolved:  That, having regard to the external auditor’s annual audit letter 2019/20, as at appendix A to the report, the committee did not determine any further actions to be recommended or items to be included in the work programme specifically arising from the document.