BRITISH TOURIST AUTHORITY TRADING AS VISITBRITAIN ...

VisitBritain and VisitEngland
Annual report and financial statements for the year ended 31 st March 2010
STATEMENT ON INTERNAL CONTROL (continued)
Future Developments
In the year 2010/11 VisitBritain will be strengthening its internal controls by the following work in addition to the annual review of core
financial systems:
review overseas offices centralised control processes to seek assurances as to the operation of controls;
as in previous years BDO will carry out a review of our commercial income. This year BDO will look at webshops where new
software is being introduced in the summer. In addition a follow-up review will be undertaken of the contracts compliance audit that
was carried out in 2009/10;
this year we will look at the IT environment that is in place at VisitBritain. This will include a high level review of protection of data,
reviewing our IT strategy and a general review of our IT infrastructure;
within the area of governance, we will consider how our risk management policies and procedures are being adopted by our
Directorates;
an annual review of core financial system; and
additional time has been set aside to carry out further work in areas to be determined later in the year.
6. SIGNIFICANT INTERNAL CONTROL PROBLEMS
I am able to confirm that there have been no significant internal control problems in VisitBritain for the year ended 31 st March 2010 and
up to the date of this report.
Sandie Dawe MBE
Chief Executive
VisitBritain
7th July 2010
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