Issue - meetings

The Head of Shared Internal Audit presented this item, which detailed the work of Internal Audit between April and October 2020 and gave details of the forward plan.

The Head of Shared Internal Audit corrected the assurance of disabled facilities grants in the report, which was Limited and not Reasonable.

HRA gas safety

In response to questioning, the Head of Shared Internal Audit explained that this review had been completed and will be followed up to ensure that Internal Audit’s recommendations were being implemented. He hoped to provide an update at the next Committee meeting.

National Fraud Initiative

The Head of Shared Internal Audit explained that the Council was extracting data for this national data matching service. No incidents of fraud had been uncovered at this stage.

Business grants

The Head of Shared Service explained that Internal Audit were checking the 2,189 grant payments made by the Council.

Planning audit

The Head of Shared Internal Audit reported that the audit of planning was seen as a priority. It was agreed that an update on this should be received by the Committee at its next meeting. In response to questioning, Suresh Patel of External Audit stated that he would wait for the report before commenting on the value for money aspect.

Resourcing Internal Audit

In response to questioning the Head of Shared Internal Audit stated that Internal Audit had to respond to the extra work created by the responses to the Covid-19 pandemic. He hoped to recruit an extra member of staff in the future.

The Chair thanked the Head of Shared Internal Audit for his report and presentation. The Committee noted the report.