This report sets out a summary of those high and medium risk Internal Audit recommendations which remain outstanding together with an updated management response.

Jackie Yates, Deputy Chief Executive, presented a report setting out progress with the Implementation of Audit Recommendations  

The report explained that each recommendation set out in appendix 1 was marked with a percentage complete which correlated to a red/amber/green rating (up to 25% complete: red, between 26% and 75%: amber, over 75% complete: green).  Any recommendations that were less than 50% complete but had exceeded their agreed completion date were also marked red. 

The tracker report now had 101 high and medium risk recommendations from Internal Audit, of which 42 (41.6%) were currently green, 44 (43.6%) were amber and 15 (14.9%) were red.  Twenty-two recommendations had now been completed and would be removed from the next report. 

Whilst there had been some positive movement since the last meeting, more needed to be done to improve implementation times.  The report stated that of the 28 recommendations which were more than 12 months old, eight were now complete and would be removed from the next report.  The relevant officers were present at the Committee to explain what they were doing to implement these recommendations and when they would be implemented.

Resolved:     That the high and medium risk Internal Audit recommendations and the responses to those risks be noted as set out in Appendix 1 to the report.