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The Council resolved
that:

(i)      the annual accounts for
2019/20, 2020/21 and 2021/22, as noted by the Audit and Governance
Committee on 29 July, be noted and referred to the Council’s
external auditors for their audit opinion;

(ii)    
the signing off of the accounts by the Council’s Strategic
Director for Finance and Section 151 Officer be noted, with the
caveat that they are based on the best information available and
the policies and conventions in place for the year that the
specific accounts refer to; and

(iii)    
it be noted that the issues concerning bad debt on investments in
group companies identified in the June 2023 Section 114 Notice and
Capitalisation Direction will be dealt with in the 2023/24 accounts
which are planned to be presented to the Council later in the year
along with those for 2022/23.