| 23rd February 2006
Andrew Hudson Chief Executive
David Park Director - Local Taxation & Technology
Alan Sherriff Director – Finance and Planning
Steve Hartnell Director - Human Resources
Paul Sanderson Director – Data & Special Projects
Mary Morrison-Paton Head of Communications
Craig Lester Director – DVS Client Development
Ann Grinstead Non Executive Director
Margaret Devlin Non Executive Director
Barny Todd Head of Financial Operations
Richard Swann Diversity & Equality Officer
Andrew Mouland Secretary
This item was a discussion on operational performance, the purpose of which was to address operational issues by reviewing the key performance indicators where the outlook was not at green.
John Derrick had prepared a paper for information on progress towards the Agency’s key productivity improvement target of 5% and on the factors that may put this objective at risk.
He was asked to provide a further paper on what it would take to deliver productivity improvements of 5% in 2006/7 and 4.6% in 2007/8 looking at the possible effect on other targets.
This item was a discussion on operational performance, the purpose of which was to address operational issues by reviewing the key performance indicators.
HMRC targets were all shown as green so the discussion focused on Land Services (LS) income and Work in Progress (WIP).
Craig Lester would circulate a paper on lessons learned in regards to achieving LS income for a DVS Strategy meeting on 14 March.
The Management Board would continue to be updated on work being undertaken to reduce WIP.
The closing date for the Staff Attitude Survey was 24 February. A report would be submitted to the Management Board in March.
HR would submit a report on equal opportunities and health and safety issues to the People Committee on a regular basis. The Management Board would also discuss these issues.
Craig Whiteley provided the Management Board on a paper giving an overview of lessons learned from the Early Departure Scheme. These lessons would be shared with HMRC.
The financial position remained resilient and there was nothing to raise at this stage.
Discussions with Groups were continuing until the end of February.
Discussions were also continuing with CEO divisions and Alan Sherriff would report to the Management Board on progress at the beginning of March.
The purpose of the paper prepared by Craig Whiteley was to seek Management Board approval for a new retirement age within the Agency.
The Management Board agreed that the Agency would adopt a retirement age of 65 in order to provide more flexible workforce planning whilst the Agency is in a state of change.
The pension age would be unaffected.
The purpose of the paper presented by Barny Todd was to update the work being undertaken to ensure that the VOA complied with those parts of the Corporate Governance in Government Departments, Code of Good Practice that were applicable to Agencies.
The Code had been circulated to Board members in December and since then a matrix had been drawn up showing the Agency’s compliance with the Code. Internal Audit would report on whether the matrix fully reflected the Code as applicable to the VOA and would assess our compliance with the matrix. This exercise would be repeated on an annual basis.
The Board discussed the areas of the matrix where it was suggested that we did not currently comply.
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