HMRC Executive Committee: Agenda and summary - 13 January 2009 9.00 am

Attendees

Lesley Strathie – Chair
Melanie Dawes
Mike Eland
Anthony Inglese
Bernadette Kenny
Steve Lamey
Deepak Singh
Cathy Wilcher

Apologies

Dave Hartnett

Invitees

Mary Aiston, Simon MacDowall, Alicia O’Neill, Leonora Robertson, Simon Hopkins, John Keelty, Jeremy Greenfield, Mark Neale

Secretariat

Peter Hankins, Helen Daniels, Jackie Riley

1 Minutes, matters arising, action points

The draft minutes were agreed and action points reviewed.

2 Capability Review

The Committee discussed the handling of the re-review. Roles would change; the Programme Board would now focus on producing the self-assessment, and there would be less emphasis on assuring progress.

An interactive discussion session followed, covering the position reached, outcomes, and challenges. The team would follow this up with a series of one-to-one conversations with ExCom members and then bring the results back to ExCom in due course.

3 Business Planning

The Chair thanked members for the work done so far. Simon Hopkins explained the timetable and how further work would be progressed. Substantial input from ExCom would be needed. The Committee agreed to consider DTP immediately, and discuss ‘Business As Usual’ at an additional ad hoc half-day session the following week.

The Committee reviewed the position for DTP and commissioned more work in preparation for further discussions at its ad hoc meeting.

4 AOB

HMRC had agreed to participate in a pilot for the new Civil Service People Survey between 5 February and 6 March.

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