Appintments

Report: 3b - Annual General Meeting
Date: 30 June 2011
By: Chief Executive

Summary

At the May 2011 Authority meeting it was agreed that until the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill was enacted the current committee structure should remain unchanged.

This report informs members that the Mayor has appointed Kit Malthouse as Chairman of the Metropolitan Police Authority and Reshard Auladin as Vice Chairman of the Authority.

It also asks members to approve appointments, including the positions of chairmen and vice chairmen and membership to the Authorities committees

The report also seeks appointments to organisations and other internal MPA forums.

A. Recommendations

That

1. members note that the Mayor has appointed Kit Malthouse as Chairman of the Metropolitan Police Authority and Reshard Auladin as Vice Chairman of the Authority
2. consideration be given to the position chair of the Finance and Resources Committee and subject to no further nominations being received agree the appointments of other positions of the remaining chairmen and vice chairmen of committees/sub-committees as given at Appendix 1.
3. the membership of the committees and sub-committees (Appendix 2), MPA representation on outside bodies including the appointment of Chair of the MPA Domestic and Sexual Violence Board (Appendix 3) be agreed;
4. approve the appointment of co-opted members to the Corporate Governance Committee (referred to at paras 12/13) until June 2012 (or until abolition of Authority): and
5. note that all appointments be effective until the Authority is abolished or the next Annual Meeting in 2012 which ever is the sooner.

B. Supporting information

Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Authority

1. The Metropolitan Police Authority Regulations 2008 provide that ‘if the Mayor is not a member of the Metropolitan Police Authority he shall before each annual meeting appoint a chairman from among its members’. The Regulations also state ‘before an annual meeting of the Metropolitan Police Authority the Mayor may appoint one or more vice-chairmen from among the members of the Metropolitan Police Authority.

2. The Chief Executive has received notice that the Mayor has appointed Kit Malthouse as Chairman and Reshard Auladin as Vice Chairman until the next annual meeting of the Authority in 2012.

May Authority meeting

3. At the Authority meeting in May, members agreed that the current committee structure should, until such time as the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill is enacted, remain unchanged.

4. At the May meeting of the Authority members were asked and agreed to inform officers of any changes to chairmanship of committees, committee/sub-committee membership and MPA representation on outside bodies that wished to propose

Appointment of Chairs and Vice Chairs of Committees

5. Members were asked, prior to this meeting, to express an interest in the positions of chairs and vice chairs of committees (the chairs and vice-chairs of the sub-committees will be appointed at the first meeting of the parent committees).

6. Appendix 1 provides details of current chairmen and vice chairmen of committees. There has been one expressions of interest (proposed and seconded) for the position of Chair of Finance and Resources Committee. There have been no further expressions of interest for any of the other positions. However, this does not preclude members from making nominations at the meeting, but these would need to proposed and seconded. If more than one member has expressed an interest in a position then there will need to be a vote by ballot.

7. The Standards Committee appoints its own Chair and Vice-Chair. The Chair of the Standards Committee must by law be one of its external independent members.

Membership of Committees

8. Members are asked to appoint the membership of committees as follows:

• Strategic and Operational Policing Committee
• Finance and Resources Committee
  No more than one member of the Corporate Governance Committee can sit on this committee and that member cannot be the Chair of the Corporate Governance Committee.
• Communities, Equalities and People Committee
• Corporate Governance Committee
  No more than one member of the Finance and Resources Committee can sit on this committee. Similarly, no more than one member of the Standards Committee can sit on this committee. The Chair and Vice Chair of the Authority and the Chair of the Finance and Resources Committee cannot sit on the Corporate Governance Committee
• Standards Committee
  The Chair and Vice Chair of the Authority cannot be members of the Standards Committee.

9. Appendix 2 outlines the current membership of committees and no changes have been received from members.

Membership of sub-committees

10. As a number of sub-committees meet soon after this Authority meeting it would be helpful if the Authority considered sub-committee memberships – these can then be ratified at the next meeting of the parent committee. There is no requirement for members of sub-committee also to sit on the parent committee and members are asked to consider the membership of the following sub-committees:

• CT and Protective Services Sub-Committee
• Olympic/Paralympic Sub-Committee
• Professional Standards Cases Sub-Committee
• Resources and Productivity Sub-Committee
• Citizen Focus and Community Engagement Sub-Committee
• Equalities and Diversity Sub-Committee
• HR and Remuneration Sub-Committee

MPA representation to other organisations

11. A number of outside bodies seek MPA representation on various committee, boards and panels. Members have been invited to give expressions of interest in representing the MPA on these organisations (Appendix 3). If these cannot be filled at this meeting it is suggested that they be referred to a future meeting of the Strategic and Operational Policing Committee. Members may wish to consider whether the Authority could appropriately be represented by officers in some cases.

Co-opted members

Corporate Governance Committee

12. Richard Stephenson is Group Director of HSE for Transport for London and has responsibility for developing strategy and policy in consultation with the Business HSE teams and senior management. He advises the TfL Commissioner and Board on the assurance given by managing directors regarding delivery of HSE accountabilities and provides support to the TfL Board Safety, Health and Environment Committee. He acts as the Head of HSE profession at TfL, including assisting managing directors in developing and leading initiatives to continuously improve the TfL-wide HSE community. Prior to this, Richard Stephenson managed Shell Chemical’s global HSE strategy with responsibility for corporate HSE planning, global HSE performance and assurance reporting and HSE communications.

13. Linda Duncan is Head of Governance with Hyman Capital Services. She has over 22 years’ experience in the audit and risk management field and is a former Partner in KPMG’s Risk Management practice in London. Before that, Linda Duncan spent 10 years in the public sector audit and advisory practice of PriceWaterhouseCoopers, providing external audit, internal audit and advisory services to a wide range of clients including local and central government and the health service. She is a past member of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy’s Audit Panel, which is responsible for the Code of Practice for internal auditing in local government.

MPA Domestic and Sexual Violence Board

14. The MPA Domestic and Sexual Violence Board is open to all members of the Authority to attend. The Authority is required to appoint the Chair of the Board and officers have received a nomination that Kirsten Hearn and Valerie Brasse co-Chair this Board. Members are asked to agree this nomination.

C. Other organisational and community implications

1. Equalities Impact

1.1 There are no specific implications as a result of these recommendations.

2. Met Forward

2.1 No direct implications in relation to the process of appointments of members.

3. Financial Implications

3.1. There are no financial implications.

4. Legal Implications

4.1 There are no legal implications.

5. Environmental Implications

5.1 There are no environmental implications

6. Risk Implications

6.1 There are no risk implications

D. Background papers

None

E. Contact details

Report authors: Nick Baker, MPA

For more information contact:

MPA general: 020 7202 0202
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