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STATES AUDIT COMMISSION: APPOINTMENT OF CHAIRMAN _______________

Lodged au Greffe on 3rd July 2001

by the Finance and Economics Committee

______________________________

STATES OF JERSEY

STATES GREFFE

180             2 0 0 1    P . 9 2          

Price code: A

PROPOSITION

THE STATES are asked to decide whether they are of opinion -

  to r e -a p point Mr. Timothy Dunningham as Chairman of the States Audit Commission for a further period of two

years.

FINANCE AND ECONOMICS COMMITTEE

Report

The  States  will  recall  that,  at  the  meeting  held  on  2nd  May  2000,  they  approved  the  appointment  of  Mr. Timothy Dunningham as Chairman of the States Audit Commission for a period of twelve months.

This  was  considered  to  be  an  interim  arrangement  pending  the  implementation  of  the "Strategic  Review  of  Audit Arrangements  within  the  States  of  Jersey", undertaken  by  Mr.  Noel  Hepworth,  and  which  recommended  fundamental changes to the way in which audit will be provided in the future, and in particular that the responsibility for value for money audit, currently conferred to the States Audit Commission, be assigned to a new Auditor-General.

The implementation of the Hepworth report and its recommendations has since been linked to the machinery of government reform, and is therefore delayed until such time as a way forward is agreed by the States.

The States are therefore requested to agree to the re-appointment of Mr. Timothy Dunningham for a further twenty-four months, which is the remainder of the usual three-year term, on the understanding that, if alternative proposals are agreed by the States in the meantime, the Audit Commission would resign "en-bloc".

There are no additional financial or manpower implications for the States arising from this proposition.