Issue - meetings

          The Board considered a report from the Director of Finance, which outlined two recommendations made by the Audit and Governance Board as detailed below. That Executive Board:

·       make changes to the governance of the Transformation Programme by making changes to the Transformation Programme Board to increase transparency, including the addition of two members of the Audit & Governance Board to the Transformation Programme Board, who should not also be Scrutiny (PPB) Chairs.

·       ask each Executive/Corporate Director to identify what items of non-staff related expenditure are defined as essential to the delivery of services within their Directorate, and provide written justification for the essential spend designation, outside of which no other spending will be permitted.

RESOLVED: That

1)    two members of the Audit and Governance Board be added to the membership of the Transformation Programme Board; and

2)    Consideration be given to the recommendation from Audit and Governance Board as set out in paragraph 3.4 below, regarding a request to the Executive/Corporate Directors and a report be brought to a future Board meeting.