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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:

·                     Rating of actions. Following a question from a Member, the Internal Auditor informed the Committee that the priority rating of actions was assigned by Council officers and signed off by the Council’s senior management. The priority rating would not be amended if the implementation of the action became overdue, but the action would be identified in the Auditor’s report.

·                     Implementation of internal Audit Plan. Following a question from a Member, the Head of Corporate Assurance informed the Committee that the Council had sufficient internal resource to enable the implementation of the Internal Audit Plan.

Following consideration, the Committee unanimously resolved:

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