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This report summarises progress against the audit plan for 2018/19.

The Committee received a report summarising progress against the audit plan for 2018/19.

The following matter was considered:

a)            Update on Cyber Security Internal Audit Report. The ICT Manager provided the Committee with an update on actions taken in response to the Internal Audit Report on Cyber Security, and the unrelated recent website outage experienced by the Council. Following a question from a member of the Committee regarding arrangements for communicating with Councillors during events such as the website outage, the Head of Policy Performance and Governance informed the Committee that officers would review the approach taken.

Following consideration, it was resolved:

That the Committee:

(1)      Received the latest internal audit progress report for 2018/19 attached at Annex 1 to the report.

(2)      Noted the update regarding the backlog of tree inspections attached at Annex 2 to the report and expressed its concern over the lack of progress, and also noted the update on implementation of the cyber security audit recommendations attached at Annex 2 to the report.