Issue - meetings

4.40pm

Report by the Director of Finance

This report presents the Internal Audit Charter and Internal Audit Quality Assurance Programme for 2019/20. These are subject to annual review.

The Committee is RECOMMENDED to:

a)               approve the Internal Audit Charter; and

b)              note the Quality Assurance and Improvement Programme.

Recommendations agreed.

Sarah Cox introduced the report.  The Committee is required to approve the Internal Audit Charter on an annual basis.  Internal Audit was assessed by CIPFA in November 2017 with a positive outcome.

Geoff Jones noted that among the key duties was approval of the Internal Audit budget.  Sarah Cox responded that the Committee gets a breakdown on the how the work days are split.  She suggested that perhaps the word “approval” might be taken out.

Councillor Roz Smith noted that the mission statement on the top of Agenda Page 96 was a very useful definition of what internal audit does.

RESOLVED to:

a)            approve the Internal Audit Charter; and

b)            note the Quality Assurance and Improvement Programme.