In the light of the success of the work carried out by Officers as part of the National Fraud Initiative the Audit and Risk Management Committee had requested the Cabinet to consider increasing investment so as to allow the work to be undertaken to combat fraud during 2011/12.

RESOLVED:

That the Cabinet thanks the Audit and Risk Management Committee for its referral and requests the Director of Finance to bring a report to a future Cabinet meeting setting out options and costs for continuing to effectively combat fraud.