Appointment of Chairs and Deputy Chairs of committees and membership of committees

Report: 10b
Date: 30 March 2006
By: Chief Executive and Clerk

Summary

This report asks members to agree which portfolio positions it wishes to appoint to. It also seeks the appointment of committee chairs and deputy chairs and the membership of those committees.

A. Recommendation

That

1. the Authority decides which portfolio positions it wants and appoints to these;
2. appointments be made to the positions of chairs and deputy chairs of committee;
3. the membership basis of the Strategy and Policing Committee be agreed;
4. the membership of committees be appointed.

B. Supporting information

1. At the Annual meeting of the Authority in June 2005, appointments were made for the positions of the Chair and Deputy Chairs of the Authority for 2005/06.

2. At the same meeting, members agreed that the current membership of committees, including the positions of chairs and deputy chairs, ‘be retained until the conclusion of the current review of the way in which the Authority conducts its business’.

3. The review of the Authority’s committee structure has now been concluded and was approved at the January 2006 meeting of the Authority. Members are now asked to confirm what portfolio positions are required and make the necessary appointments and to appoint chairs and deputy chairs and membership of its committees.

Portfolio holders

4. At its January meeting the Authority agreed to establish portfolio positions to lead on specific major areas of work, although it was not decided at that stage what those portfolio areas should be. The generic description of the role and responsibilities is contained in the proposed Committee Terms of Reference also being reported to the Authority at the current meeting. When portfolios have been agreed, detailed terms of reference will be developed for report to and approval of the Strategy and Policing Committee.

5. The report to the January Authority meeting proposed the following portfolio areas:

• Workforce modernisation
• Estates strategy
• Met Modernisation Programme (the proposal was that this should be the Chair of the Strategy & Policing Committee)
• Community Engagement (the proposal was that this should be a Deputy Chair of the Authority)

6. Members are invited to consider whether portfolio appointments are needed for any other areas of the Authority’s activity. It has been suggested that a portfolio linking the MPA’s oversight of Stop and Search with its responsibilities for the Independent Custody Visiting Scheme could produce some synergy in looking at issues around police/public interaction in a policing environment. It would also make sense for the portfolio holder to act as the link member for Custody Command.

Appointments of chairs and deputy chairs of committees

7. Appendices 1 and 2 provide details of expressions of interest in the position of chairs and deputy chairs of committees and membership of committees.

8. As the review of the committee structure has only recently been concluded and with the 2006 Annual meeting of the Authority, not too far away, it is envisaged that appointments made now will only required ratification and or minor adjustments at the annual meeting in June.

9 Members are now asked to appoint the chairs and deputy chairs of its committees.

Appointments of committee membership

10. Members are invited to make membership appointments to the Authority’s committees. In doing so, confirmation is required on the number and make up of the Strategy and Policing Committee (currently called the Co-ordination and Policing Committee).

Strategy and Policing Committee

11. The membership of this Committee is currently made up of 13 members as follows:

• the Chair and Deputy Chairs of the Authority;
• chairs of committees; and
• four other members drawn from the membership of the Authority.

12. It does not include the Chair of the Standards Committee as it is felt that this Committee should remain independent of the Authority’s mainstream activities.

13. The review of the committee structure has resulted in two less committees. However, it is proposed that portfolio holders should also be members of this committee. The impact of this on the committee’s membership will depend on the extent to which members have more than one role (for instance currently a Deputy Chair of the Authority is also Chair of the Professional Standards & Complaints Committee).

14. It is proposed, therefore, that the Authority agrees the total membership number for the committee at 13 and that, once Committee Chair and Portfolio appointments have been made, the remaining vacancies are filled from the Authority’s membership.

C. Race and equality impact

There are no race and diversity implications arising from this report.

D. Financial implications

There are no financial implications arising from this report.

E. Background papers

None

F. Contact details

Report author: Nick Baker

For more information contact:

MPA general: 020 7202 0202
Media enquiries: 020 7202 0217/18

Appendix 1

Expression of interest in Chair & Deputy Chair

Chair of Corporate Governance Committee

Toby Harris

Jennette Arnold (proposed Murad Qureshi 2nd

Deputy Chair of Corporate Governance Committee

Rachel Whittaker (proposed Karim Murji 2nd Jennette Arnold)

Chair of Equal Opportunities & Diversity Board

Kirsten Hearn (proposed Cindy Butts 2nd John Roberts)

Deputy Chair of Equal Opportunities & Diversity Board

John Roberts (proposed Cindy Butts 2nd Kirsten Hearn)

Chair of Finance Committee

Deputy Chair of Finance Committee

Richard Sumray

Chair of Planning, Performance and Review Committee

Richard Sumray

Deputy Chair of Planning, Performance and Review Committee

Karim Murji (proposed Cindy Butts 2nd Richard Sumray)

Chair of Professional Standards and Complaints Committee

Reshard Auladin (proposed Karim Murji 2nd John Roberts)

Deputy Chair of Professional Standards and Complaints Committee

Karim Murji (proposed John Roberts 2nd Reshard)

Appendix 2

MPA Committees membership – expression of interests

Co-ordination and Policing Committee

Current membership Chair/Dep. chairs of Authority, chairs of committee plus 4
Next meeting 7 April 2006

• Len Duvall (as Chair of Authority)
• Cindy Butts (as Dep Chair of Authority)
• Reshard Auladin (as Dep Chair of Authority) and (as Chair of PSC)
• Richard Sumray (as Chair of PPR)
• Kirsten Hearn (as Chair of EODB)
• Graham Tope (as Chair of Finance)
• Toby Harris/Jennette Arnold (as Chair of Corporate Governance)

Plus Portfolio holders

TBA

Plus other expressions of interest in CoP

• Richard Barnes
• Elizabeth Howlett
• Damian Hockney
• Karim Murji
• John Roberts
• Rachel Whittaker
• Jennette Arnold (if not chair of Corporate Gov)
• Toby Harris (if not chair of Corporate Gov)

Corporate Governance Committee

(should try to avoid being on Finance?)

Current membership no.4
Next meeting 19 June 2006

• Toby Harris (as Chair)
• Jennette Arnold (as Chair)
• Rachel Whittaker

Equal Opportunities and Diversity Board

Current membership no. 7
Next meeting 6 April July 2005

• Kirsten Hearn (as Chair)
• John Roberts (as Deputy Chair)
• Damian Hockney

Finance Committee

Current membership no. 8
Next meeting 20 April 2006

• Richard Sumray (as Deputy Chair)
• Reshard Auladin
• Richard Barnes
• Bob Neill
• Elizabeth Howlett

Planning, Performance and Review

Current membership no. 7
Next meeting 24 April 2006

• Richard Sumray (as Chair)
• Karim Murji (as Deputy Chair)
• Tony Arbour
• Reshard Auladin
• Richard Barnes
• Dee Doocey

Professional Standards and Complaints

Current membership no. 7
Next meeting 18 May 2006

• Reshard Auladin (as Chair)
• Karim Murji (as Deputy Chair)
• Tony Arbour
• Damian Hockney
• Elizabeth Howlett
• John Roberts
• Rachel Whittaker

Standards Committee

Current membership 4 plus 2 Independent members & Chair & Deputy Chair to be decided by Committee)
(2 independent members) plus
Next meeting 23 November

• John Roberts
• Bob Neill
• Damian Hockney

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