Lesley Strathie – Chair
Dave Hartnett
Bernadette Kenny
Steve Lamey
Anthony Inglese
Simon Bowles
Mike Eland
Melanie Dawes
Deepak Singh
Cathy Wilcher
None
Simon MacDowall, Mark Neale, Helen Daniels, Mary Aiston, Matt Kettel, John Greenwood, Rob Dellegrotti, Alicia O’Neill, Nicole Kett, Mark Bowman, Jeremy Greenfield, Marcus Robinson (PWC), Julie McClatchy, Mike Clasper, Michelle Wyer
Niran Khera
Minutes of 26 May were agreed.
Updates on Action Points were made and some actions discharged.
Simon Bowles updated the Committee on the outcomes of the Audit and Risk
Committee which took place on the 22 June.
Bernadette Kenny has agreed a way forward with Dave Hartnett on ownership,
accountability and scrutiny of the HMRC Charter.
Jeremy Greenfield and Marcus Robinson (PWC) were introduced to the Committee. There was a discussion around the modelling work. The Strategy Event scheduled for the 14th of July was discussed. . The Committee agreed that business leads and their teams would be present at the Strategy Event. Dave Hartnett confirmed that he is the lead for developing information and knowledge strategies.
As ExCom is the steering group for Strategy; it will be a standing agenda item at future ExCom meetings.
It was agreed that it would be helpful to include forecasts of the RAG status at the end of year point and this would be incorporated into the next version of the risk register. It was agreed that two existing risks would be reviewed and re-worked.
The Committee stated that they were grateful for all the good work John Greenwood and Paul King and their teams have done. The Committee discussed staff engagement around issues of health and safety. It was agreed to take forward a piece of work firstly identifying what the problem is before embarking on further work and determining where the investment needs to be.
Rob Dellegrotti presented his paper to the Committee. The Committee noted the business workforce change delivery approach, structure and risks and the proposed changes to managing redeployment of potentially surplus staff. The Committee agreed the individual responsibilities and accountabilities and discussed the idea of geographical regional leads and the importance of supporting Implementation Team Leaders.
Nicola Kett and Mark Bowman delivered a presentation to the Committee on key aspects of public spending and forecasts. Mike Clasper and Michelle Wyer attended ExCom for this session
The assessment scores were agreed. Alicia O’Neil would give a quick update at the Board Meeting on the 7th of July and this would be followed by a shared presentation by members of ExCom. The Committee stated that Alicia O’Neil had done an excellent job on the paper to date. Simon MacDowall would assist in editing the document.
It was agreed that HMRC would maintain its current position around the disclosure of tax payer information. Any decision to disclose taxpayer information will have to come back to the Commissioners of HMRC to consider.
Business planning for 2009-10 led by Simon Bowles would be added to the 14th of July ExCom agenda.
