Issue - meetings

[To receive the current position on audit investigations]

Mark Wilkes, Audit Business Partner presented the update report on current audit investigations.

Referring to the outcome of the Tenancy Sub-let audit investigation, Councillor Philip Bateman MBE asked whether the County Court judgement on the tenancy sub-letting case was publicised.  He suggested that to do so would send a message to the public and tenants that the Council and Wolverhampton Homes take the issue of sub-letting Council property very seriously and action would be taken against anyone caught committing that fraud. The Audit Business Partner reported that Wolverhampton Homes would manage publicity of cases taken to court. Peter Farrow, Head of Audit also said that the Chair of the Committee was keen for the Council to promote the outcome of Country Court hearings relating to fraud and he would arrange to include a reference to the court judgement in a potential press release on the Committee’s work.

Resolved:

That the update on the internal audit investigation be noted.