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Business Management and Administration Committee
4 June 2008
10am
Room 3, City Hall, The Queen’s Walk, London SE1
Members of the Committee
Darren Johnson (Chairman)
Jennette Arnold (Deputy Chair)
Tony Arbour
Richard Barnes
John Biggs
Brian Coleman
Len Duvall
Roger Evans
Mike Tuffrey
A meeting of the Committee has been called by the Chair of the Committee to deal with the business listed below. This meeting will be open to the public. There is access for disabled people, and induction loops are available.
Mark Roberts
Executive Director, Secretariat
27 May 2008
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Agenda
Downloadable files for agenda papers are grouped at the end of the page, linked from the appropriate agenda item.
1. Apologies for absence and Chair's announcements
To receive any apologies for absence and any announcements from the Chair.
2. Declarations of interest
The Committee is recommended to note membership of Functional Bodies and London Borough Councils and to declare any other personal or prejudicial interest in specific items of the agenda, including interests arising from any gifts or hospitality received since 12 September 2007.
3. Membership of the Committee
To note the membership and chairing arrangements for the Committee made by the Annual Meeting of the Assembly on 9 May 2008 (and amended at the London Assembly (Mayor’s Question Time) meeting on 21 May 2008):
Darren Johnson (Chairman)
Jennette Arnold (Deputy Chair)
Tony Arbour
Richard Barnes
John Biggs
Brian Coleman
Damian Hockney
Len Duvall
Roger Evans
Mike Tuffrey
4. Terms of reference and standing delegation to the Chair
The Committee is asked to note the Committee’s terms of reference, which are as follows:
- Staffing
- To respond on behalf of the London Assembly to formal consultation from the Head of Paid Service (HoPS) concerning staff appointments and terms and conditions for section 67 (2) employees under the GLA Acts 1999 and 2007
- To receive reports from the Head of Paid Service
- With the Mayor and on behalf of the London Assembly, to make appointments to the posts of the three statutory officers (Head of Paid Service, Monitoring Officer and the Chief Finance Officer) and to approve the terms and conditions of employment for those posts
- With the Mayor and on behalf of the London Assembly, to undertake any required disciplinary procedures against the Authority’s statutory officers in accordance with relevant procedures
- In accordance with agreed protocols and at the request of the Head of Paid Service, to appoint as necessary Members to attend appointment panels as non-voting members for relevant staff posts
- Scrutiny
- To commission additional scrutinies, where appropriate, and to make recommendations to the Assembly on how best to deal with them, whether by standing or ad hoc proportional committees, non-proportional committees or a rapporteur with a cross-party reference group
- To develop good scrutiny practice across all committees of the Assembly and to advise the Assembly
- To approve all scrutiny-related Assembly expenditure and proposals for use of rapporteurs, in conformity with the Assembly’s decision making framework procedure
- General
- To oversee the programming of the Assembly’s business
- To provide a response from the Assembly on consultation in respect of electoral issues, arrangements for major events such as People’s Question Time and the State of London debate, consultation on their behalf concerning Parliamentary bills and all forms of secondary legislation or guidance and any other issue not falling within another committee or sub-committee’s subject area and terms of reference
- To deal with and determine any question, issue or other matter not falling within the approved subject area and terms of reference of any other committee
- To vary the approved subject area and terms of reference of the Assembly’s other committees and sub-committees, so as to include for the future an issue or other matter not otherwise provided for, in order to facilitate the efficient and effective discharge of the Assembly’s business
- To have due regard to the decisions of the other Committees of the Assembly
- Budget
- To recommend to the Mayor a budget proposal for the London Assembly for the following financial year
- To allocate the Assembly’s budget and to monitor expenditure on scrutiny throughout the year
- To approve, in accordance with GLA policy, all proposed Assembly-related budget virements in excess of £25,000 (noting that virements in excess of £50,000 will be notified to the Mayor once a decision is taken) and to approve all proposed virements between staff and non-staff budgets within the overall Secretariat budget (in consultation with the Mayor for relevant proposed virements in excess of £50,000)
To note the following delegations to the Chair of Business Management and Administration Committee:
- The Assembly, on 21st July 2004, resolved "that the Chair of the BMAC, in consultation with the Deputy Chair and Group Leaders, be given delegated authority to approve the calling of additional meetings of Committees outside the agreed timetable of meetings"
- BMAC agreed the following delegations on 13 December 2007 to the Chair, in consultation with the Deputy Chair and party group spokespeople:
- To respond on behalf of the London Assembly to formal consultation from the Head of Paid Service (HoPS) concerning staff terms and conditions and changes to the establishment where there is not sufficient time to do so at a full Committee meeting
- With the Mayor and on behalf of the London Assembly, to agree arrangements for any required disciplinary procedures against the Authority’s statutory officers in accordance with relevant procedures where there is not sufficient time to do so at a full Committee meeting
5. MInutes
The Committee is recommended to note the minutes of the meeting of the Business Management and Administration Committee held on 11 March 2008.
6. Summary list of actions
Report of the Executive Director of Secretariat
The Committee is recommended to note the actions arising from the previous meetings of the Business Management and Administration Committee.
7. Action taken under delegated authority
Report of the Executive Director of Secretariat
The Committee is recommended to note the action taken by the Chair of the Committee since the last meeting of the Committee, in accordance with delegated authority.
8. Head of paid service staffing update
Report of the Chief Executive
The Committee is recommended to note the staffing changes in the Mayor’s office.
9. Head of Paid Service Consultation – Posts
in Secretariat
Report of the Chief Executive
10. Mayoral consultation on appointment to the board of the London Development Agency
Report of the Executive Director of Secretariat
That the Committee formally responds to the consultation on the proposed appointment of Harvey McGrath to the LDA.
11. Centre for Public Scrutiny Conference 2008
Report of the Executive Director of Secretariat
The Committee is recommended to approve expenditure of £2,000 from the Scrutiny Programme Budget in order to sponsor the Centre for Public Scrutiny Conference 2008.
12. Date of next meeting
The next scheduled meeting of the Committee is to be held on 18 June 2008 at 2.30pm.
13. Any other business the Chair considers urgent
The London Waste and Recycling Board – Consultation on Confirmation Hearings
Further information
If you have questions, would like further information about the meeting
or require special facilities please contact: John Barry, Committee Co-Ordinator, tel: 020 7983 4425; email: john.barry@london.gov.uk,
Minicom: 020 7983 4458. For media enquiries please contact Mark Demery,
tel. 020 7983 5769.
If you have any questions about individual reports please contact the report author whose details at the end of each report.
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