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This report summarises progress against the Internal Audit Plan

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

The report was introduced by the Internal Auditor.

The following matters were considered by the Committee:

a)            The areas where there were overdue management actions, including the outstanding high priority recommendation given in respect of the Building Control account which was given an overall limited assurance.  This is in progress and is dependent upon the new partnership arrangement due to commence on 1 April 2022.

b)            It was also confirmed that the quantum of the outstanding fees on the Building Control account was not of a material nature.

c)            The Annual Governance Statement audit and the Service Delivery audit had both been concluded and a Reasonable Assurance has been given in respect of both.

d)            A Limited Assurance was given in respect of IT Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery which was carried forward from the 2020/21 audit plan.  The Head of Corporate Governance gave a verbal update in this regard and it was noted that good progress had been made in implementing the recommendations.  Of the six recommendations, five were completed including the two high priority items.

e)            The internal auditor confirmed that whilst there was still a lot of the audit plan for 2021/22 to deliver for the rest of the year, they (the internal audit partnership) are able to provide a reasonable assurance that these outstanding audits will all be resolved.

Having considered the above matters, it was unanimously resolved to:

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