Future of NFI decided
The UK government has
confirmed that the dedicated National Fraud Initiative (NFI) team from
the Audit Commission will be retained and, together with the statutory
powers that make effective data-matching possible, be transferred to
the Cabinet Office.
Audit Scotland
currently runs the exercise in Scotland with support from the Audit
Commission in England; however, the Commission is due to close in
2015.
The 2012/13 National Fraud Initiative exercise will carry on unaffected.
Audit Scotland looks
forward to working with the Cabinet Office, the Northern Ireland Audit
Office and Welsh Audit Office to ensure the continuing success of
the NFI which has delivered over £1 billion of fraud, overpayments
and other errors across the UK since it was established in 1996.
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New-look annual review published
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Audit Scotland
has published a new interactive electronic annual review to accompany
its annual report and accounts for 2012/13.
The PDF hosts
interactive features such as pop-up graphics and statistics on our
work, our performance and our organisation.
Among the
year’s highlights are completing 214 annual audits on time and
publishing 26 performance and Best Value reports; the reduction of
our audit fees by 10 per cent, and the positive feedback we have had
from the health and college sector on the quality of our work.
You can view
the full annual report and accounts on our website
here.
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Audit Scotland’s performance
scrutinised
The Auditor General and
members of Audit Scotland’s senior management team recently answered
questions about our annual report and accounts at a meeting of the
Scottish Commission for Public Audit (SCPA).
The SCPA is the
parliamentary body which holds us to account and appoints our auditors.
Members asked questions
on a range of topics including staffing, our trainees scheme and audit
fees.
They then heard from
our appointed auditors who gave our finances a clean bill of
health.
You can read the
official report of the meeting on the Scottish Parliament website here.
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Keep up to date with our work
Earlier this year Audit
Scotland moved to an electronic distribution system for its national
reports.
If you have received
this enewsletter then it is likely that you are already on our mailing
list. If, however, someone forwarded this communication to you, then
perhaps you would be interested in signing up to receiving information
from us.
It is quick and easy to
do – just enter your email address here.
Once you have done that
you will be able to specify what you want to receive from us so, if you
are interested in reports on health, but not housing or the economy but
not the environment, then you can tailor your preferences to suit. And,
of course, you can sign up to receive this enewsletter.
The decision to go
electronic was made after a consultation carried out last
year. Some key stakeholders are still receiving printed reports
but these will be phased out by April of next year.
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