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AT A MEETING of the HAMPSHIRE FIRE AND RESCUE AUTHORITY - GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE held at The Castle, Winchester on 25 October, 2004.

PRESENT: Item 22

Councillors: Mrs. M.D. Snaith (Chairman); A. Bentley; P.R.C. Hutcheson; R. McIntosh;

R. Smith.

1 APOLOGIES

Apologies for absence were received from Councillors Mrs. P.G.E. Holden-Brown and R. Williams.

2 DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST

Members were mindful that, where they believed they had a personal or personal prejudicial interest in any matter to be considered at the meeting, they should, normally at the time of debate, declare their interest and having regard to the circumstances described in paragraphs 9, 10, 11 and 12 of the Fire Authority's Code of Conduct consider whether to leave the meeting whilst the matter was discussed.

There were no declarations of interest made by members under this item.

3 CHAIRMAN'S COMMUNICATIONS

There were no Chairman's Communications.

4 DEPUTATIONS

There were no deputations.

5 PLANNING THE FUTURE WORK OF THE COMMITTEE

The Committee considered the report of the Treasurer and Clerk (Item 5 in the Minute Book) on the potential scope of its work in developing the corporate governance framework for eventual adoption by the Authority. Members supported the way forward on corporate governance as suggested in the report and were content for the development process to continue at officer level rather than be involved themselves at this stage with working group meetings.

RESOLVED:

(i) That approval be given to the approach to delivering phase 1 of the outline Work Plan 2004/05 as set out in the report.


(ii) That meetings of the Committee be scheduled on a quarterly basis to deal with the expected workload during the first year.

6 INTERNAL AUDIT STRATEGY 2004/05 TO 2006/07

The Committee considered the report of the Treasurer (Item 6 in the Minute Book) seeking approval to the proposed internal audit strategy for 2004/05 to 2006/07. The Treasurer highlighted the main external and internal factors affecting the audit strategy.

RESOLVED:

That the Committee approve the internal audit strategy for 2004/05 to 2006/07.

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