Agenda and minutes
Budget and Performance Committee - Tuesday 4 December 2012 10.00 am

To receive any apologies for absence and any announcements from the Chairman.

1.1  Apologies for absence were received from Richard Tracey AM, for whom Tony Arbour AM attended as a substitute Member, and from Valerie Shawcross CBE AM.

The Committee is recommended to:

(a)  Note as disclosable pecuniary interests the list of memberships of functional bodies and London Borough Councils, as set out in the table at Agenda Item 2;

(b)   Declare any disclosable pecuniary interests in specific items listed on the agenda and take any necessary action regarding withdrawal following such declaration(s); and

(c)   Note any further declarations of relevant interests (including any interests arising from gifts and hospitality received which are not at the time of the meeting reflected on the Authority’s register of gifts and hospitality, and noting also the advice from the GLA’s Monitoring Officer set out at Agenda Item 2), with the relevant Member(s) taking any necessary action regarding withdrawal from the meeting for related items of business following any such declaration(s).

2.1  Resolved

(a)  That the list of memberships of functional bodies and London borough councils, as set out in the table at Item 2, be noted as disclosable pecuniary interests; and

(b)   That gifts and hospitality received by Members, as set out in the Authority’s gifts and hospitality register, be  ...  view the full minutes text for item 2.

The Committee is recommended to confirm the minutes of the meeting of the Budget and Performance Committee held on 7 November 2012 to be signed by the Chairman as a correct record.

3.1  Resolved

That the minutes of the Committee meeting held on 7 November 2012 be signed by the Chairman as a correct record.

Report of the Executive Director of Secretariat

Contact:  Dale Langford; [email protected]; 020 7983 4415

The Committee is recommended to note the completed and outstanding actions arising from previous meetings of the Committee.

4.1  Resolved:

That the completed and outstanding actions arising from previous meetings of the Committee be noted.

Report of the Executive Director of Secretariat

Contact:  William Roberts; [email protected]; 020 7983 4958

The Committee is recommended to note the report and put questions to guests on the conclusions and recommendations made by the Committee in its report, Picking up the pieces - A London Assembly report on how businesses were helped to recover from the August 2011 riots.

5.1  The Committee received the report of the Executive Director of Secretariat as background to putting questions to the following invited witnesses:

·  Stephen Webb, Director of Finance and Strategy Directorate in Crime and Policing Group, Home Office;

·  Nick Starling, Director of General Insurance, Association of British Insurers (ABI);

·  David Williams,  ...  view the full minutes text for item 5.

Report of the Executive Director of Secretariat

Contact: Steve Wright; [email protected]; 020 7983 4390

The Committee is recommended to note its work programme for 2012/13.

6.1  The Committee received the report of the Executive Director of Secretariat.

6.2  Resolved

That the Committee’s work programme for 2012/13 be noted.

The next meeting of the Committee is scheduled for Wednesday 9 January 2013 at 10.00am in Committee Room 5.

7.1  The next meeting of the Committee was scheduled for Wednesday 9 January 2013 at 10.00am in Committee Room 5.

8.1  There was no other business.

9.1  The meeting ended at 12.02pm.