Decision Maker: Audit Committee

Outcome: Agreed

Is Key Decision?: No

Is Callable In?: No

Date of Decision: August 29, 2025

Purpose: Draft Unaudited Annual Accounts for 2024/25 for Audit Committee considerations

Content: Officers to circulate the full list of questions from the Chair and all management responses to committee members after the meeting:     (1)  regarding the correlation between budget cuts and employability schemes, including apprenticeships; (2)  on the use of LLA facilities, including targets and actions to improve attendance levels; (3)  regarding HRA rent arrears and voids; and (4)  regarding the HRA Note 3 and rent areas reduced by £1/2M. Has there been a different approach to recovery or has this happened naturally?   Officers to provide response to the comment made on waste streams contributing to the EfW plant’s energy savings and whether categorising EfW as recycling misleads the public, potentially diverting recyclable goods that could generate income for the Council into the EfW plant, thus potentially undermining recycling rates and revenue.