Issue - meetings
Shared Registration and Nationality Service with Barnet
Meeting: 11/12/2017 - Cabinet (Item 9)
9 Shared Registration and Nationality Service with Barnet 
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Brent has been providing Barnet’s Registration and Nationality Service under the terms of an Inter Authority Agreement (IAA) since 22nd April 2014. The IAA is for an initial term of five years, with an option to extend for a further 2 years subject to agreement by both parties. The IAA also provides an opportunity for both parties to review the arrangement after 3.5 years of operation and to determine whether the arrangement should continue. In the event that either party wished to cease the arrangement, at least six months’ prior notice would be required. Accordingly, both parties agreed to jointly review the IAA during 2016/17 to determine whether it should continue and if so, to identify and agree changes to the IAA.
Additional documents:
Decision:
RESOLVED that:
9.1 The termination of the Inter Authority Agreement with Barnet Council for the provision of a shared Registration and Nationality Service be agreed, by giving notice as required under the Inter Authority Agreement of not less than six months but not more than nine months;
9.2 The Strategic Director Resources be delegated authority to agree the precise terms of the exit arrangements applicable to the ending of the Inter Authority Agreement including any continued provision of Information Technology Support relating to the Barnet Registration and Nationality Service;
9.3 The financial implications arising from the recommendation to terminate the agreement, as set out within Section 4 of the report (Financial Implications), be noted; and
9.4 The potential requirement for the council to enter into a bulk transfer arrangement for pension purposes as set out within paragraph 5.4.2 of the report, be noted.
Minutes:
Councillor Tom Miller, Cabinet Member for Stronger Communities, informed Cabinet that Brent has been providing Barnet’s Registration and Nationality Service under the terms of an Inter Authority Agreement (IAA) since 22nd April 2014. The IAA is for an initial term of five years, with an option to extend for a further 2 years subject to agreement by both parties.
Councillor Miller stated that the IAA also provides an opportunity for both parties to review the arrangement after 3.5 years of operation and to determine whether the arrangement should continue. In the event that either party wished to cease the arrangement, at least six months’ prior notice would be required. Accordingly, both parties agreed to jointly review the IAA during 2016/17 to determine whether it should continue and if so, to identify and agree changes to the IAA.
RESOLVED that:
9.1 The termination of the Inter Authority Agreement with Barnet Council for the provision of a shared Registration and Nationality Service be agreed, by giving notice as required under the Inter Authority Agreement of not less than six months but not more than nine months;
9.2 The Strategic Director Resources be delegated authority to agree the precise terms of the exit arrangements applicable to the ending of the Inter Authority Agreement including any continued provision of Information Technology Support relating to the Barnet Registration and Nationality Service;
9.3 The financial implications arising from the recommendation to terminate the agreement, as set out within Section 4 of the report (Financial Implications), be noted; and
9.4 The potential requirement for the council to enter into a bulk transfer arrangement for pension purposes as set out within paragraph 5.4.2 of the report, be noted.