Lesley Strathie – Chair
Dave Hartnett
Bernadette Kenny
Steve Lamey
Anthony Inglese
Simon Bowles
Mike Eland
Melanie Dawes
Deepak Singh
Cathy Wilcher
Opening the meeting, Lesley Strathie welcomed deputies, shadow, and two observers.
Minutes of 12 May 2009 were agreed.
Updates on Action Points were satisfactory, but members should make a particular
effort to clear older ones.
Simon Bowles introduced Mary Aiston supported by Sean Hilhorst, who explained
the proposals on the use of Data Matching, which followed on from a paper
discussed in December 2008.
The Committee asked Mary Aiston to discuss the issues with Steve Lamey as
a first step towards deciding the best way forward and report back.
It had been agreed that ExCom should review one or two risks in detail each
month; For the purpose of this meeting Data Security had been chosen as a
number of reports were due in the next few weeks on the subject. The Department’s
risk appetite in the area of data security is reflected in the Departmental
Strategic Objective 3.2 which sets out a commitment to reduce data losses
by 75 per cent and work towards reducing the number of reports to the Information
Commissioner to zero by 2012.
It was important that the justification for current rules and systems was
robust and effectively explained if they were to be properly implemented.
New risks proposed for the register were agreed. The People Function would
review three of the risks it had escalated before further consideration.
The risk team would review the detail provided for each risk and its mitigating
action to ensure it is reflected appropriately.
Simon Bowles introduced Geoff Watkins, who presented the Accounts and Trust
Statement. The Committee would have a further opportunity to look at both
documents before they were signed off by the Chief Executive. The NAO would
issue its own press release on publication.
The Committee was content. Geoff Watkins undertook to provide some further
explanation of items in Appendix A.
Miles Yarrington presented the paper
The proposal was to put paybill for the latter years of Fast Programme attachments into Lines of Business, while retaining central oversight for the first two years. The Committee called for a wider paper on talent development to inform a future discussion.
Katie Davis from the Identity and Passport Service delivered a presentation
updating ExCom on the cross-government Safeguarding Identity Strategy, due
to be published on 23 June. The core goal was to look at how government could
help people establish their identity.
The Committee was grateful for the presentation.
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