To consider a report of the Counter Fraud and Enforcement Manager.

The Counter Fraud & Enforcement Manager was in attendance to introduce a report which outlined the Council’s fraud prevention and detection performance and activities in 2019/20 and the team’s plans for 2020/21. Attention was drawn to the extent to which the team’s activities had safeguarded public funds across the range of its activities, and its significant involvement in issues arising from the emergency Covid-related business grants which had been paid through the Council. An opportunity was provided to raise questions on the report’s content, which centred on the scope of the team’s activities and triggers for initiating counter-fraud and enforcement investigations.

            RESOLVED – That the content of the report be noted.