Internal Audit and Counter Fraud Service

 Please provide the following information for your Council for 2022/23 (or the current position)

1. The net Revenue Cost for the whole Council:

Net Internal Audit And Counter Fraud Cost to Devon County Council (DCC) is £371,200.

2. The total cost (Staff salaries, on-costs, system costs, supplies costs, transport costs) of your Internal Audit and Counter Fraud Function:

Gross cost charged to DCC for Internal Audit and Counter Fraud is £448,500

3. Number of FTE staff in your Internal Audit and Counter Fraud service:

DCC does not have any Internal Audit or Counter Fraud staff directly employed.

4. The number of Audit days undertaken by the Internal Audit and Counter Fraud service:

The function is delivered by Devon Audit Partnership (DAP) and we therefore do not hold this information

5. The productive days per FTE Internal Audit and Counter Fraud staff member:

The function is delivered by DAP and and we therefore do not hold this information.

6. Number of FTE Internal Audit and Counter Fraud staff members:

i. Qualified

ii. Part Qualified

iii. % of High/Medium Audit recommendations agreed and management actions Implemented

The function is delivered by DAP and there are no further staff in DCC to which this applies.

The information for DAP is published at various partners, for example Microsoft PowerPoint – Appendix A – IA Charter and Strategy for West Devon 2022-23 (swdevon.gov.uk) see page numbered 19.

7. When was Counter Fraud plan last updated:

This function is delivered by DAP and summary information reported to the DCC Audit Committee.

Counter Fraud update.pdf (devon.gov.uk)

8. Number of FTE staff dedicated to Counter Fraud promotion:

The function is delivered by DAP and we therefore do not hold this information

9. Number of FTE staff dedicated to Counter Fraud investigations:

The function is delivered by DAP and and we therefore do not hold this information.

10. Number of Fraud incidents reported:

This function is delivered by DAP and summary information reported to the DCC Audit Committee.

Counter Fraud update.pdf (devon.gov.uk)

11. Number of Fraud incidents investigated:

The function is delivered by DAP and and we therefore do not hold this information

12. Number of Fraud prosecutions initiated:

The function is delivered by DAP and and we therefore do not hold this information.

13. Identified value of fraud savings/recovered:

This function is delivered by DAP and summary information reported to the DCC Audit Committee.

Counter Fraud update.pdf (devon.gov.uk)