Issue - meetings
Internal Audit Annual Opinion
Meeting: 23/07/2024 - Audit and Governance Committee (Item 282)
282 Internal Audit Annual Opinion 
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Summary/Purpose
To present a summary of the work undertaken by Internal Audit during 2023/24 and to give an overall opinion on levels of assurance resulting from this work.
Recommendation
That the Audit and Governance Committee resolves to:
1. Consider the report and comments as necessary
Additional documents:
- Annex A CDC FINAL Internal Audit Annual Opinion, item 282
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- Annex B CDC Finalised Reports, item 282
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- Annex C CDC Agreed Actions July 2024, item 282
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- Webcast for Internal Audit Annual Opinion
Minutes:
The purpose of the report was to present a summary of the work undertaken by Internal Audit during 2023/24 and to give an overall opinion on levels of assurance resulting from this work.
The Assistant Director for SWAP introduced the item Director explaining that the overall score had not changed from the previous year, remaining ‘low reasonable’ due to risks found around property and estates, Taxi Licensing safeguarding and Climate Change.
Members discussed the report, raising the following points,
- There were concerns raised in the report over record keeping for licensing taxis, this was important to get right due to the Council’s safeguarding obligations. The Assistant Director for SWAP stated that follow up work would be undertaken with the service area.
- It was important to understand why planning applications were returned or withdrawn. The Chief Executive stated that this information could be provided but that a more useful metric for the Committee may be the timescales involved with validating applications.
- A new Climate Change & Carbon Reduction Lead had been appointed since the audit in the report had been undertaken and work was being done to address the issues raised by the audit.
The SWAP Assistant Director in summary stated more information would be provided on the following;
- The applications that were tested as part of the Taxi Licensing Audit.
- The statistics on response rates to Freedom of Information Requests.
- The reasons why 56 planning application were applications withdrawn or returned applications.
- Further information on the instances when Purchase Orders weren’t utilised by service areas.
RESOLVED: That the Audit and Governance Committee NOTED the report