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Public Accounts Committee Record of Meeting
Date: 13th February 2017
Present | Deputy A.D. Lewis , Chairman Connétable A.S. Crowcroft , Vice-Chairman (except Item 3) Connétable C.H. Taylor Deputy J.A. Martin Mr R. Parker Mr M. Robinson |
Apologies | Mr G. Drinkwater |
In attendance | Mrs K. McConnell, Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG) Mr Stephen Warr en, Deputy Comptroller and Auditor General C. Tomlinson, PAC Officer. |
Ref Back | Agenda matter | Action |
| 1. Minutes The Committee approved the minutes of the meeting of 30th January 2017 |
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| 2. PAC Work Programme 2017 The Committee agreed amendments to the PAC work programme for 2017, including additional hearing and meeting dates. | CT |
30.01.17 Item 3 512/1(8) 512/31 | 3. Jersey Innovation Fund Connétable A.S. Crowcroft , Vice-Chairman, declared a conflict of interest in the proposed review of the Jersey Innovation Fund and was not present at the meeting when it was discussed. The Committee noted that the Attorney General had indicated he was content for the PAC to undertake a review on the terms and scope as proposed. The Committee agreed the Terms of Reference and Scoping document accordingly and requested that it be circulated to the Chairmen's Committee for approval. | CT |
30.01.17 Item 6 512/30 | 4. Travel and Accommodation Expenses Review The Committee agreed that the Chief Executive and Treasurer of the States should be invited to an earlier public hearing than originally agreed, namely 13th March, and requested the Officer to invite them accordingly. | CT |
30.01.17 Item 7 512/32 | 5. eGov Review Mr M. Robinson advised he would meet with the Officer on Friday 17th February to go through a number of issues arising from the latest communications received by the eGov team. Following consultation with the C&AG and her Deputy , a full update and question plan for the planned public hearing of 27th March would be considered at the Committee's meeting of 13th March. | MR |
30.01.17 | 6. Police Station |
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Item 10 | The Committee noted that the terms of reference and scope for the review had been approved. It agreed to request the Chief Officer to extend an invitation to members to visit the new headquarters on 22nd February 2017 at 2.15pm. | CT |
30.01.17 Item 11 | 7. Entertainment and Hospitality Expenses Deputy J.A. Martin confirmed that she would take the lead on the planned review and would await the response from the Chief Minister's Department, expected on 28th February, before presenting terms of reference and a scope of the review to the Committee. | CT |
30.01.17 Item 12 | 8. Road surfacing Connétable C.H. Taylor agreed to meet the Officer to explore whether the planned review could be undertaken in a more expedient way, namely research to aid questions in the States Assembly or a comments paper. | CT |
30.01.16 Item 13 512/1(8) | 9. C&AG – Jersey Audit Office Audit Plan The Committee received an update on the C&AG's Audit Plan for 2017, including a project specification for the Management of Land and Property Review. The Committee also noted a Private Patients' Income Follow up Report which had been published on 9th February, and agreed to ask the Health and Social Services Department why certain recommendations of the previous report had not yet been implemented. | CT |
| 14. Next meeting The Committee agreed that it would hold its next meeting on 13th March at 12pm in the Blampied Room, which would include a public hearing at 2pm with the Chief Executive regarding the implementation of recommendations of the Committee's Travel and Accommodation Review. . | CT |