Business Operations and Partnerships Department
Director of Business Operations & Partnerships: Louise Pringle
Council Headquarters, Eastwood Park, Giffnock, East Renfrewshire, G46 6UG
Phone: 0141 577 3000
website: www.eastrenfrewshire.gov.uk
Date: 10 June 2025
When calling please ask for: Linda Hutchison (Tel. No 0141 577 8388)
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TO: Councillor Andrew Morrison (Chair), Tony Buchanan (Vice-Chair), Provost Mary
Montague and Councillors Paul Edlin, Annette Ireland, David Macdonald and Gordon
Wallace.

AUDIT AND SCRUTINY COMMITTEE
A meeting of the Audit and Scrutiny Committee will be held in the Council Chamber,
Council Headquarters, Eastwood Park, Giffnock, G46 6UG on

Thursday, 19 June 2025 at 2.00pm.

The agenda of business is as listed below.
Yours faithfully
Louise Pringle
LOUISE PRINGLE
DIRECTOR OF BUSINESS OPERATIONS AND PARTNERSHIPS
AGENDA
1. APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE
2. DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST
Members are requested to give notice of any declarations of interest in respect of items of business on the Agenda.

3. CHAIR’S REPORT

4. UNAUDITED ANNUAL ACCOUNTS FOR 2024-25
Report by Head of Finance (Chief Financial Officer) (copy attached, pages 3 - 140).

5. CODE OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND ANNUAL GOVERNANCE STATEMENT
Report by Director of Business Operations and Partnerships (copy attached, pages
141 - 196).

6. NATIONAL EXTERNAL AUDIT REPORT – A REVIEW OF HOUSING BENEFIT OVERPAYMENTS 2018/19 TO 2021/22 – A THEMATIC STUDY
Report by Clerk (copy attached, pages 197 - 204).

7. INTERNAL AUDIT ANNUAL REPORT 2024/25
Report by Chief Auditor (copy attached, pages 205 - 218).

8. AUDIT AND SCRUTINY COMMITTEE – OUTCOME OF SELF-ASSESSMENT
Report by Clerk (copy attached, pages 219 - 240).

A recording of the Committee meeting will be available following the meeting on the
Council’s YouTube Channel

www.youtube.com/user/eastrenfrewshire/videos

This document can be explained to you in other languages and can be provided in
alternative formats such as large print and Braille. For further information, please
contact Customer First on 0141 577 3001 or email
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You can read reports/papers on Council webpage here -

www.eastrenfrewshire.gov.uk/audit-and-scrutiny-committee-190625