Agenda item

This report has come to the Committee following a request from the Customer and Corporate Services Scrutiny Management Committee (CSMC) to review the project status reporting for the Guildhall project, expressing CSMC’s concern that the October 2019 Green rating did not accurately reflect the project status at that time. The purpose the report is to review the project governance and risk management arrangements for the delivery of the project which inform the project reporting.    

Following the request from Customer and Corporate Services Scrutiny Management Committee (CSMC) to review the project status reporting for the Guildhall project, the committee considered a report that reviewed the project governance and risk management arrangements for the delivery of the project which inform the project reporting.   Risk registers were included in the annexes to the report.

The Corporate Director Economy and Place and Head of Regeneration Programmes were in attendance to present the report. They explained risk ratings as detailed in the report annexes. In answer to Member questions they explained:

·        How the project management system operated.

·        That the risk register was live and how it was updated.

·        The reporting mechanism to the Audit and Governance Committee

Resolved:

                     i.        That the content of the report be noted

                    ii.        That the role of the Audit and Governance Committee in monitoring the risks associated with major projects be noted.

Reason:     To help Members understand how the Guildhall project is being delivered.