Issue - meetings

That the report be accepted.

The Internal Audit Manager presented an update report on actions carried out to date from points raised at previous Audit Committee meetings.  He explained that the report had been deferred from the last meeting and all actions due by this date had been completed.

At the previous meeting on 18 December 2013 during discussion on one of the new investigation referrals, the Head of Finance had agreed to update the Committee on work being carried out to establish why the potential fraud incident had not been identified at an earlier stage.  Since the meeting, she had received a detailed report from the Internal Audit Manager and Pensions Manager indicating that matters had come to the attention of the Council in 2011 and that subsequent action taken had failed to halt the incident.  In conclusion, the Head of Finance stated her satisfaction that a number of improvements proposed by Internal Audit had been actioned within the Pensions team and Internal Audit to help identify any similar issues in the future.

Councillor Tim Newhouse provided an update on problems he had experienced with the delivery of email between two of his three private email addresses and the Council.  Having discussed the problem with the Head of ICT & Customer Services, he was concerned that members of the public may have experienced the same problem and would be unaware whether or not their emails had been delivered to the Council.

The Chair suggested that the Head of ICT & Customer Services be requested to investigate the problem and provide advice on a solution.

Councillor Glyn Banks referred to the two actions where a response had been provided to queries raised by Councillor Haydn Bateman and asked if this could be shared with the Committee and this was confirmed.

RESOLVED:

That the report be accepted.