Audit Committee, 28 Sep 2004
Meeting date: Tuesday, September 28, 2004
Official Report
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Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body
We move on to discuss the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. I excuse Andrew Welsh, who has declared an interest and will leave us. Following this discussion, we will take a break and move into private session.
We will consider the response to a report that we have received in a letter from the chief executive of the Parliament's corporate body, Paul Grice. I will quote a section from that letter, as not everyone will have received the committee's papers or have had the privilege of seeing them.
In the third paragraph of the letter, Paul Grice states:
"All items outstanding from the 2002-03 bank reconciliations have now been fully resolved and the accounting treatment agreed with Audit Scotland. The extensive reconciliation exercise has positively confirmed that there were no instances of duplicate or irregular transactions in that period and provides retrospective assurance on the regularity of the SPCB's 2002-03 transactions. As previously reported, reconciliations in 2003-04 and the current 2004-05 financial year are all fully up to date."
I invite members and the Auditor General to make any comments that they wish about the response. Do members have any comments?
Members indicated disagreement.
Members are simply pleased that the matter seems to have been resolved. Does the Auditor General wish to comment?
For the record, I am comfortable with the terms expressed by the clerk and chief executive in this letter.
Very good. On behalf of the committee, I record the fact that we are delighted that the issue has been resolved to everyone's satisfaction and that progress is being made towards avoiding any difficulties in the future. With that, we conclude agenda item 6.
We will now take a break and then move into private session. I suspend the meeting until quarter past 12.
Meeting suspended until 12:18 and thereafter continued in private until 13:11.
Meeting continued in public.