HMRC Executive Committee: Agenda and summary - 24 February 2009 09.00am

Attendees

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

Apologies

Dave Hartnett

Invitees

Mike Clasper, Mary Aiston, Simon MacDowall, Mark Neale, John Fundrey, Martin Cook, Simon Hopkins, John Keelty, Jeremy Greenfield

Secretariat

Peter Hankins, Helen Daniels

1 Minutes, matters arising, action points

The minutes and Action Point Log were agreed.

2 SIC

Mary Aiston explained that items to be mentioned in the next annual Statement on Internal Control now needed to be identified. Members were invited to offer views.

3 Financial Systems Strategy

The team had been working with IMS for the last six months to develop proposals.

There was scope to simplify and centralise the existing financial systems. ERP was a robust system which we should seek to exploit more fully.

John Fundrey explained the design principles which were proposed and a view of where we wanted to get to. The 2009 Finance Bill would provide an early opportunity to move forward.

Although the Strategy itself did not require new funding, it would add to the costs of future projects as they put more emphasis on building for longer-term needs.

The Committee warmly welcomed the proposals, which it endorsed.

4 Business Planning

John Keelty introduced the schedule for DTP. We now needed to get the figures out so as to get a better understanding of the implications, and therefore needed formal agreement of the allocation.

Simon Hopkins presented the BAU position.

Turning to the handling of the Board presentation, Jeremy Greenfield explained that there were four sections: an update on strategic objectives; a balanced budget; alignment right through to performance contracts; and an update on the Business Plan.

Martin Cook presented a draft agenda for the SLF session, which the Committee reviewed.

5 Strategic Objectives

Mike Clasper gave an update. It was expected that FST would give final agreement soon, and the objectives would be ready to go to the Board in March.

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