HMRC Board Committee: Summary minutes - 3 February 2009 @ 9.30 am, Room 2/51, 100 Parliament Street

Members

Mike Clasper - Chairman
Lesley Strathie - CEO
Dave Hartnett - Permanent Secretary for Tax
Colin Cobain - Non-executive Director
Melanie Dawes - Acting Director General Business Tax
Mike Eland - Director General Enforcement and Compliance
Philippa Hird - Non-executive Director
Phil Hodkinson - Non-executive Director
Bernadette Kenny - Director General Personal Tax
Steve Lamey - Director General Benefits and Credits
John Spence - Non-executive Director
Sue Street - Non-executive Director

Standing Invitees

Anthony Inglese - General Counsel and Solicitor
Simon Hopkins - Director Financial Planning and Analysis
Mary Aiston - Director Governance and Security
Michelle Wyer - Chairman’s Private Secretary
Cathy Wilcher - Chief People Officer
Deepak Singh - Acting Chief Information Officer

Secretariat

Jane Bean

Apologies

Mark Haysom - Non-executive Director

1.Introductions

The Chairman set out the objectives of the meeting, noting that the review of terms of reference would be carried forward to a future date and minutes would be cleared in correspondence.

2 The story so far and business as usual stretch

The meeting discussed the planning baseline and the latest position of the budget plans for 2009-10.

3 Scenario planning

The Board considered and discussed scenarios for spending plans for 2009-10 and drive the strategic agenda forward.

4 Stakeholder impact

Members and invitees assessed the impact of the scenarios through the eyes of various stakeholder groups to enable the executive team to continue development of the scenarios and business planning.

5 Any other business

Mike Clasper announced that online self assessments had exceeded Carter objectives and, on behalf of the Board, congratulated the team.

The next meeting of the Board Committee will be on 3 March 2009.

Board Secretariat