Minister for the Cabinet Office, Francis Maude.
Minister for Civil Society, Nick Hurd
Sir Gus O’Donnell, Cabinet Secretary and Principal Accounting Officer for the Cabinet Office
Lord Browne, Lead Non-Executive for the Cabinet Office
Ian Davis, Non-Executive Board Member
Rona Fairhead, Non-Executive Board Member
Dame Barbara Stocking, Non-Executive Board Member
Jeremy Heywood, Permanent Secretary, Prime Minister’s Office
Ian Watmore, Chief Operating Officer for the Efficiency and Reform Group
Chris Wormald, Director General of the Deputy Prime Minister's Office
Sue Gray, Head of Propriety and Ethics Team and Director of Private Offices Group
Bruce Mann, Finance Director (Board Secretary)
The Board forms the collective strategic and operational leadership of the Department, bringing together its Ministerial and Civil Service leaders with senior non-executives from outside government.
The Board is responsible for:
Planning and Performance – agreeing the Departmental Plan, especially the department’s strategic aims and objectives and the allocation of human and financial resources to achieving them, and their public expression in the Business Plan; monitoring and steering performance against the Plan; scrutinising the performance of sponsored bodies; and setting the Department’s standards and values.
Strategy and Learning – setting the vision / mission and ensuring all activities contribute towards it, either directly or through establishing a credible “licence to operate”; long-term capability and horizon scanning, ensuring that strategic decisions are based on a collective understanding of policy issues; using expertise and outside perspectives to hold the Department to account on its interaction with the 'real world'.
Resources and Change – signing off large projects or programmes, or scrutinising those above the department’s financial delegation prior to submission to the Treasury; drawing on advice from the Audit and Risk Committee, ensuring sound financial management including the operation of delegations and internal controls; ensuring that organisational design supports the attainment of strategic objectives; evaluation of the Board and its members, and succession planning.
Capability – ensuring the Department has the capability to deliver and to plan to meet current and future needs.
Risk – drawing on advice from the Audit and Risk Committee, setting the Department’s risk appetite and ensuring that effective and proportionate controls are in place to manage risk.
The Cabinet Office Board will agree and operate in accordance with a Board Operating Framework, which will reflect Government policy on good corporate governance (set out in the Government Corporate Governance Code).
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