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The Committee was advised of the Council’s participation in the Cabinet Office National Fraud Initiative (NFI) 2020/21 exercise and of the proposed work to be carried out by the Audit and Counter Fraud Team in conjunction with the Initiative.

The NFI is a long-standing data matching exercise which matched electronic data within, and between, participating bodies to prevent and detect fraud and error.  The exercise has been conducted primarily through matching sets of prescribed data that each local authority maintains, with similar data sets submitted by other local authorities, public bodies and a number of private sector bodies.  The arrangements for, and the data sets to be reviewed within, the 2020/21 exercise were outlined, and reports providing an update on the outcomes from the investigations undertaken on the 2020/21 data matches would be brought to future meetings of the Audit Committee.

RESOLVED that the report be noted.