Internal Audit and Counter Fraud employees - Find a freedom of information request

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



1. The net Revenue Cost for the whole Council:

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

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

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

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

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

7. When was Counter Fraud plan last updated:

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

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

10. Number of Fraud incidents reported:

11. Number of Fraud incidents investigated:

12. Number of Fraud prosecutions initiated:

13. Identified value of fraud savings/recovered.

1. Already available publicly on Council website:  https://www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/directory-record/61670/budget-and-financial-strategy

2. Counter Fraud data already available in open data sets: https://lincolnshire.ckan.io/dataset/counter-fraud

Budget information available published in the Budget Book: https://www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/directory-record/61670/budget-and-financial-strategy

3. Counter Fraud data already available in open data sets: https://lincolnshire.ckan.io/dataset/counter-fraud

Audit team numbers varied through the year due to staff changes. The 2022/23 Internal Audit Annual Plan confirms the structure for 23 FTE: https://lincolnshire.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s49084/Appendix%20A%20-%20Internal%20Audit%20Plan%20202223.pdf

4. Counter Fraud data already available in open data sets: https://lincolnshire.ckan.io/dataset/counter-fraud

The number of audit days is available on the 2022/23 annual plan: https://lincolnshire.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s49084/Appendix%20A%20-%20Internal%20Audit%20Plan%20202223.pdf

5. Counter fraud days (324.5) published in 2022/23 annual report: https://lincolnshire.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s57525/CF%20Annual%20Report%202022-23%20FINAL.pdf

6. Counter Fraud data already available in open data sets: https://lincolnshire.ckan.io/dataset/counter-fraud

Audit team numbers varied through the year due to staff changes. The 2022/23 Internal Audit Annual Plan confirms the structure for 23 FTE.

https://lincolnshire.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s49084/Appendix%20A%20-

%20Internal%20Audit%20Plan%20202223.pdf

i. Counter fraud number varies through the year, due to staffing changes. During 2022/23 Counter fraud services were supported by seven different staff holding appropriate audit/ fraud qualifications.

Eight staff holding audit / accountancy qualifications.

ii. Counter Fraud x 1 FT part qualified.6 on apprenticeship course for audit qualification.

iii. Already available publicly in the Internal Audit Annual report: https://lincolnshire.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s57525/CF%20Annual%20Report%202022-23%20FINAL.pdf

7. Plan produced annually. Latest version approved July 2023: https://lincolnshire.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s58326/8.1%20Counter%20Fraud%20Plan%202023-24.pdf

8. Counter Fraud promotion / investigations work not separated in 2022/23 – team members worked across both aspects.

9. Counter Fraud promotion / investigations work not separated in 2022/23 – team members worked across both aspects.

10. Counter Fraud data already available in open data sets: https://lincolnshire.ckan.io/dataset/counter-fraud

11. Counter Fraud data already available in open data sets: https://lincolnshire.ckan.io/dataset/counter-fraud

12. Details already published in Annual Counter Fraud Report: https://lincolnshire.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s57525/CF%20Annual%20Report%202022-23%20FINAL.pdf

13. Counter Fraud data already available in open data sets: https://lincolnshire.ckan.io/dataset/counter-fraud