To consider the submitted report and any recommendations from the Audit Committee on the Annual Statement of Accounts for 2010/2011.

The Council received the Statement of Accounts for 2010/11 as recommended by the Audit Committee and set out in the submitted report.

It was proposed by Councillor Tyerman and seconded by Councillor Hill:

(i)         that the Council’s Statement of Accounts for 2010/11, as set out in pages 3 to 139 in Appendix 1 to the submitted report, be approved; and

(ii)        that following approval in (i) above the person presiding at this meeting sign and date the accounts on behalf of the Council, to represent the completion of the Council’s approval process of the accounts, in the “Statement of Responsibilities for the Statement of Accounts” shown on page 16 of the Statement of Accounts.

On being put to the vote, the motion was declared carried (unanimous).

Following the above, the Chairman of the Council signed the Statement of Accounts.