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This report summarises progress made against the Internal Audit Plan.

The Committee received a report summarising progress made against the Internal Audit Plan.

The Committee received a verbal introduction from a representative of the Council’s internal Auditor S.I.A.P.

The following matter was raised by the Committee:

a)            Accounts Payable Outstanding Recommendation: The Finance Team have confirmed that this recommendation was implemented as duplicate transactions are resolved and the bank reconciliations was completed at the end of the year.

b)           Building Control Outstanding Recommendation: Members noted that the due date for the outstanding recommendation to undertake reconciliation between the uniform system and the general ledger had just passed. The Council’s Internal Auditor noted that they were now looking to speak with relevant officers to obtain an update. It was also confirmed that this is an on-going piece of work linking into another project of outsourcing as part of Build Back Better; and that a report would go to the Strategy and Resources Committee detailing potential options for the future.

Following consideration, it was resolved unanimously that the Committee:

(1)      Received the internal audit progress report from Southern Internal Audit Partnership attached at Appendix 1.