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This report summarises progress against the Internal Audit Plan 2023-2024.

The Committee received a report summarising the progress against the Internal Audit Plan 2023-2024.

The following matters were considered:

a)            Biodiversity Net Gain. A Member of the Committee asked for an explanation of the Biodiversity Net Gain Grant listed on page 155. The Council’s Internal Auditor responded to explain there was a very short, restricted piece of work that was required, and it was set by central government. The Internal Auditor explained that it was required to have Chief Executive and chief internal auditor sign off and the review would have purely looked at the spend of that grant and whether the spent was in line with the grant conditions set, which they were comfortable with therefore able to sign that off. The Member asked if outside expertise has been required to audit this grant. The Internal Auditor responded to state that any additional expertise was not necessary to review and audit the Biodiversity Net Gain grant.

Following consideration, the Committee unanimously resolved to:

(1)      Note the internal audit progress report 2023-2024 from Southern Internal Audit Partnership (SIAP) attached at Appendix 1.