Minutes

Minutes of the special joint meeting of the Finance and Planning Performance & Review Committees held on 9 November 2006 at 10 Dean Farrar Street, London, SW1H 0NY.

Present

Members

• Anthony Arbour
• Reshard Auladin
• Dee Doocey
• Elizabeth Howlett
• Karim Murji
• Aneeta Prem
• Richard Sumray
• Rachel Whittaker

MPA officers

• Ken Hunt (Treasurer)
• David Riddle (Deputy Chief Executive and Deputy Clerk)
• Jane Owen (Head of Planning and Performance)
• John Crompton (Committee Services)

MPS officers

• Stephen Rimmer (Director, Strategic Management and Performance)
• Adrian Lovegrove (Head Financial Planning Accountant

8. Apologies for absence

(Agenda item 1)

Apologies for absence were received from Richard Barnes, Bob Neill and Graham Tope.

9. Appointment of Chair

(Agenda item 2)

Resolved – That Richard Sumray, Chair of the Planning Performance and Review Committee, be appointed Chair of the meeting.

10. Declarations of interests

(Agenda item 3)

No declarations of interest were received.

11. Corporate business plan - planning and targets update

(Agenda item 5)

Members received a report which updated them on the integrated strategic financial/planning framework. The report also updates on the Territorial Policing variable target setting process for 2007/08.

There was general recognition that it disappointing to note that although the budget submission process was nearing completion the budgetary and planning aspects were still not full integrated. Amongst the points made by members was the need for more synergy and more information on the impact at borough level.

The Director, Strategic Management and Performance said that whilst he welcomed the opportunity to fully explore the lessons learnt in a report to be considered in January, there might be scope to address some of the immediate points in the revised fully worked up versions of the documents to be considered at the Finance Committee and the full Authority towards the end of November. He agreed with a comment from a member that there was perhaps a need to streamline the information provided to members and that it did not need to be the complete submission to be made to the GLA . He also said that the MPS was looking at ways in which issues such as Value for Money were built into the business generally and not just the business planning process.

Resolved – That

1. the draft corporate business plan be approved, subject to amendments, as suitable for submission to the GLA;
2. the progress on the Territorial Policing Variable Target Setting process for 2007/08 be noted; and
3. a report be submitted in January reviewing progress of the current integrated business/financial planning framework and proposals for improvements for next year.

The meeting ended at 2.45 p.m.

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