Issue - meetings

Members were asked to consider the Internal Audit Report for 2019/2020. They heard from the Head Audit & Risk Management (Lincolnshire County Council) that this gave the Head of Internal Audit’s opinion on the adequacy of the Council's governance, risk and control environment and the delivery of the Internal Audit Plan for 2019/2020. She explained that as the global pandemic had started to have an affect prior to the close of the financial year, the report did make reference to this. She highlighted several areas of the report for Members, including the 91% delivery rate of the internal audit plan and areas of improvement within the council.

Members thanked the Internal Audit team for an open and accessible report and questioned whether the delivery of the audit plan had been impacted by the global pandemic. This was confirmed to be the case and explained that officers for the outstanding are had been involved with frontline work relating to covid-19 and therefore it had not been possible to complete the audit. It was highlighted that the quarter one audit report would be seen at Committee in July and it would update the delivery plan accordingly.

A Member of the Committee also enquired about the dates covered by the report and it was confirmed that the report covered from April 2019 to March 2020.

            RESOLVED that

a)    the Committee had considered the Head of Audit’s Annual Report and Opinion for 2019/2020 and no further actions had been identified; and

b)    the Committee would take into account this Annual Report and the Head of Internal Audit's opinion when considering the Council's Annual Governance Statement 2019.