To consider Report 68/2011 that set out work that the Audit Commission was currently undertaking.

Members noted Report 68/2010 which set out the reports that the Audit Commission had issued since the Audit Committees last meeting on 8 December 2010, the work they were currently undertaking and Audit Commission events and national reports.

Steve Brown of the Audit Commission advised Members that the Audit Commission had consulted on its proposed work programme and scales of fees for 2011/12 which had resulted in a relatively small number of responses.  He advised that consultees welcomed the rebates and the reductions in fees but felt that they should be larger, as a result the Audit Commission agreed, subject to affordability, to make additional rebates in 2011/12.