The Committee received a report (a copy of which is appended in the Minute Book) summarising the progress made in implementing management actions arising from final internal audit reports.
The Head of Governance and Monitoring Officer introduced the report and invited questions from the Committee.
In response to a question from the Committee regarding the Code of Procurement Audit, the Head of Governance and Monitoring Officer advised that the service had been under significant pressure and noted the complexity of this work. Her previous responses to the Committee had been a commitment for the work to be done well as opposed to fast, and a significant amount of work had been done on the revised Code of Procurement, which she considered to be a near final draft. This would be taken to the next meeting of the Constitution Review Working Group.
The Head of Governance and Monitoring Officer noted the comments of the Committee that the revised target date of 31st October 2026 should be a hard stop, and any further slippage would not be supported.
Whereupon, it was
RESOLVED
that the Committee commented on and noted the current position regarding actions arising from internal audit reports.