Issue - meetings

Approved.

Debbie Smith, SBCD Monitoring Officer presented a report to commission a review of the SBCD Programme/Portfolio Management Office (PoMO).

Resolved that:

1)    A review and evaluation of the PoMO function is commissioned due to the fact that there is no agreement to ongoing funding of the PoMO beyond 2025-26.

2)    The draft terms of reference attached at Appendix 2 are approved and authority is delegated to the officer group (recommendation 3) to further develop the terms of reference as appropriate.

3)    The review is undertaken by a representative officer group from the constituent authorities comprising the officers set out in paragraph 1 of the terms of reference.

4)    A report be produced with a series of considered options, together with a comprehensive impact evaluation of those options for the Joint Committee to consider at a future meeting.