Issue - decisions

The committee received a report from the Principal Auditor regarding the Annual Report on the Prevention of Fraud and Corruption Policy.

In response to members questions’ the Principal Auditor said the following:

i.             The information contained within paragraph 3.14 of the Officer’s report is collected by The European Institute for Combatting Corruption and Fraud. The City Council was in a fairly similar position to neighbouring and partner authorities, however specific authorities were not identified.

ii.            Analysis of results from our partner authorities within shared services was something that the Council needed to look at.

iii.           The drop in identified Housing Benefit Fraud identified in paragraph 3.7 was as a result of the transfer of this responsibility of this type of investigation to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). A review would be carried out in 12 months.    

Resolved (unanimously):

i.       Approved the changes recommended to the PFC Policy and Addendum at Appendix 1.

ii.  Approved the adoption of the Anti-Fraud and Corruption Strategy and Action Plan at Appendix 2.

iii.    Noted the details of the fraud / whistleblowing activity provided for the period 1 April 2015 – 31 March 2016 in section 3 of the report.