LONDON’S GLOBAL UNIVERSITY
FINANCE COMMITTEE
14 November 2013
M I N U T E S
PRESENT:
Mr Simon Melliss (Chair)
Professor Michael Arthur (President and Provost)
Mr Ven Balakrishnan
Dr Stephanie Bird
Dr Ben Booth
Mr Mark Clarke
Professor Sue Hamilton
Dr Gill Samuels
Professor Alan Smith
Professor Alan Thompson
Sir Stephen Wall
In attendance: Ms Nicola Arnold (Director, Financial Control and Analysis); Professor Steve
Caddick (Vice-Provost (Enterprise)); Mr Andrew Grainger (Director of UCL Estates); Mr Phil
Harding (Director of Finance and Business Affairs); Miss Valerie Hogg (Director, Financial
Planning and Strategy); Mr Rex Knight (Vice-Provost (Operations)); Mr Nick McGhee
(Secretary to Finance Committee).
Apologies for absence were received from Mr Mohammed Zayyan Butt, Dr Liam Graham and
Mr John Morgan.
Key to abbreviations used in these Minutes:
ASSUR Annual Sustainability Assurance Report
FC Finance Committee
FEC full economic costing
HEFCE Higher Education Funding Council for England
P&L profit and loss statement
REF Research Excellence Framework
SMT Senior Management Team
SORP Statement of Recommended Practice
THE Times Higher Education
UCLU UCL (students’) Union