HMRC Executive Committee: Agenda and Summary 18 September 2007

Attendees:

Paul Gray - Chairman
Mike Eland - Director General
Mike Hanson - Director General
Dave Hartnett - Director General
David Hogg - General Counsel and Solicitor
Chris Hopson - Change and Capability Director
Bernadette Kenny - Director General
Steve Lamey - Director General and Chief Information Officer
Stuart Cruickshank - Director General and Chief Finance Officer

Ann Chinner - Chairman's Private Secretary
Adam McMordie - Secretariat

Apologies

David Hogg

Also Attending:

Bill Griffiths, Kate Owen, John Spence, Penny Melville-Brown, Claire Merrills, Jane Platt, Mike Anderson, Tim Godwin, Adam Pemberton, James McLintock, Stephen Banyard, Richard Alderman, Mike Wells, Mike Norgrove, Christopher Jary, Barbara Conroy, Rowena Kisley, Sue Edwards, Don Makepeace, Mark Neale

Contents:

Capability Review

ExCom and the Non-Executive Directors discussed HMRC's Capability Review with members of the capability review team.

Matters arising

Minutes of 4 and 11 September were agreed.

ExCom members updated the committee with hot topics arising from within their portfolios.

HMRC Committees update

Chairs and representatives from the ExCom sub-committees updated ExCom on matters arising from their committees.

Workforce Change

Sue Edwards and Don Makepeace considered potential strategic choices facing the Department in relation to Workforce Change.

Submission master class

Christopher Jary provided a master class on submissions.

AOB

Steve Lamey informed the committee there would be a light-touch review of the sub-committee structure, focusing on remits and membership.

The committee considered pacesetter assurance.

The next meeting of the Executive Committee will be on 2 October at 13.15, Lynx House Portsmouth.

Executive Committee Secretariat