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Business Management and Administration Committee Members and Terms of Reference

Membership

Agreed membership 2008/9 - appointed at the meeting of the Assembly on 9 May 2008.

• Darren Johnson (Chair) - Green
• Jennette Arnold (Deputy Chair) - Lab
• Tony Arbour - Cons
• Richard Barnes - Cons
• John Biggs - Lab
• Brian Coleman - Cons
• Len Duvall - Lab
• Roger Evans - Cons
• Mike Tuffrey - Lib Dem

Office of Deputy Chair of BMAC delegated for decision at the next meeting of the Committee.

Proportionality:

4 Conservative, 3 Labour, 1 Liberal Democrat, 1 Green

Terms of Reference

A. Staffing

1. 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.
2. To receive reports from the Head of Paid Service.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.

B. Scrutiny

1. 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.
2. To develop good scrutiny practice across all committees of the Assembly and to advise the Assembly.
3. To approve all scrutiny-related Assembly expenditure and proposals for use of rapporteurs, in conformity with the Assembly’s decision making framework procedure.

C. General

1. To oversee the programming of the Assembly’s business.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. To have due regard to the decisions of the other Committees of the Assembly.

D. Budget

1. To recommend to the Mayor a budget proposal for the London Assembly for the following financial year.
2. To allocate the Assembly’s budget and to monitor expenditure on scrutiny throughout the year.
3. 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).

Note: The Authority's Standing Orders also state, in relation to this Committee:

The Business Management and Administration Committee may 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.

In order to facilitate the efficient and effective discharge of the Assembly's business, the Business Management and Administration Committee shall have the power 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.

The Committee's powers under this paragraph are subject to Standing Orders 9.1 to 9.3.

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