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1.  
Since the last Board meeting, our approval committee has considered four applications by correspondence and has met on 25 January 2011 to consider applications requiring approval of consultancy contracts over £20,000 and all external recruitment. 2. 

The cases considered are listed below: 

| Committee                                                                                        | Date        |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------|
| directorate                                                                                      |             |
| Summary of                                                                                       |             |
| application                                                                                      |             |
| Consultancy/                                                                                     |             |
| recruit                                                                                          |             |
| Decision                                                                                         |             |
| Consideration by correspondence                                                                  |             |
| 68                                                                                               |             |
| Extension to the web                                                                             |             |
| producers contract                                                                               |             |
| Recruitment                                                                                      | Approved    |
| 19 January                                                                                       |             |
| 2011                                                                                             |             |
| EA                                                                                               |             |
| £25,000                                                                                          |             |
|                                                                                                  |             |
| 79                                                                                               |             |
| Consultancy                                                                                      | Approved    |
| VfM study - resource                                                                             |             |
| efficiency - people                                                                              |             |
| stream                                                                                           |             |
| RME                                                                                              |             |
| 19 January                                                                                       |             |
| 2011                                                                                             |             |
|                                                                                                  |             |
| £20,000                                                                                          |             |
|                                                                                                  |             |
| 80                                                                                               |             |
| Consultancy study on                                                                             |             |
| on-rail competition                                                                              |             |
| Consultancy                                                                                      | Approved    |
| RME                                                                                              |             |
| 19 January                                                                                       |             |
| 2011                                                                                             |             |
|                                                                                                  |             |
| £100,000                                                                                         |             |
|                                                                                                  |             |
| 81                                                                                               |             |
| Extension to contract -                                                                          |             |
| HR officer                                                                                       |             |
| Recruitment                                                                                      | Approved    |
| CS                                                                                               |             |
| 19 January                                                                                       |             |
| 2011                                                                                             |             |
|                                                                                                  |             |
| Consideration in committee                                                                       |             |
| 83                                                                                               | Recruitment |
| Approved                                                                                         |             |
| 25 January                                                                                       |             |
| 2011                                                                                             |             |
| Additional operations                                                                            |             |
| advice                                                                                           |             |
| RPP                                                                                              |             |
| Further details of any of the above applications and decisions are available from Brian Warrener |             |
|                                                                                                  |             |

3. The committee were also provided with details of any applications below 
£20,000 which are subject to approval by the director of corporate services. No applications had been approved.    However one application had been revised and had now been approved by the chief executive, with a value of