HMRC Audit Committee: agenda and summary 26 June 2007, 8.30am, Room G/57 100 Parliament Street

Committee Members

Bill Griffith - Non Executive Director - Chairman
Jon Spence - Non Executive Director
Kate Owen - Non Executive Director

Invitees

Mike Hanson - Director General
Stuart Cruickshank - Director General, Chief Finance Office
Melvyn Neate - Head of Internal Audit
Steve Ardron - NAO
John Thorpe - NAO
Aidan Callan - Corporate Governance
Geoff Watkins - Finance
David Swift - Finance
Geoff Fox - Finance
Stuart Jones - Internal Audit
Mike Shipp - PSN

Adam McMordie - Secretariat
Hannah Parker - Secretariat

Apologies

Pat Duckworth - Corporate Governace
Mike Eland - Director General
Caroline Mawhood - NAO

1 Matters arising

Minutes of 30 May were amended and agreed.

The Audit Committee requested further work on use of Delegated Authorities within HMRC.

The Committee agreed to review Internal Audit work on SAP in September.

2 Internal Audit Report and Annual Opinion

Melvyn Neate reviewed the Internal Audit Report with the Committee. The Committee accepted the Internal Audit opinion for 06/07.

3 Resource accounts

Stuart Cruickshank and David Swift discussed recent changes in the resource accounts.

4 Trust Statement

David Swift and Geoff Fox reviewed the Departmental Trust Statement.

5 Statement of Internal Control

The Committee discussed the latest version of the Statement of Internal Control.

6 AOB

David Swift noted that VOA will be moving to SAP for next year’s consolidated accounts.
The Committee agreed to review Departmental risk structures and processes at the next meeting.

The next meeting of Audit Committee will be September 2007.

Audit Committee Secretariat