Issue - meetings

Steve Crabtree introduced his progress report on the delivery of the 2016/17 Internal Plan, as at August 2016. He was pleased to report that the Senior Internal Auditor had recently passed her exams and was now fully qualified.

Gifts and hospitality

Steve Crabtree explained that the audit of Corporate Governance had revealed that there was no evidence of any declarations of gifts and hospitality nor had the system been reviewed. To remedy this the Monitoring Officer and Deputy Monitoring Officer had agreed to carry out a full review. In response to questioning Steve Crabtree stated that he was not aware of any other authorities that insisted that all councillors and officers complete annual returns of their gifts and hospitality.

Homelessness

It was noted that a new IT system had recently been installed and this would affect internal audit’s review.

Corporate Fraud Working Group

The Corporate Fraud Working Group would be reporting to EMT this autumn.

Procurement and Commissioning outside the European Union

The Executive Director explained that new laws would have to be enacted by Parliament in order to change the current European laws which regulated the Council’s procurement strategy.

The Committee NOTED the Internal Audit Progress Report.