Mr Paul Rock, Head of Internal Audit, Fraud and Risk presented the Annual Review of Anti-Bribery Policy. Mr Rock informed Members the Audit Committee were required to annually review the Council’s Anti-Bribery policy which had been updated. Minor changes to reflect the ownership, contact details and web links to external sites had been made.

In response to questions from Members the following was noted:

·         Members requested the policy should explicitly state when fraud should be reported to the Police. Mr Rock responded stating that the policy informs on how anti-bribery should be tackled however he would look at benchmarking and amending the over-arching fraud strategy, to ensure this was robust.

The Committee RESOLVED to:

1.    Review and Approve the updated Anti-Bribery Policy.