CMA Board meeting minutes: 1 December 2022
Published 31 May 2023
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Meeting date: 1 December 2022
Venue: In the Cabot, London and by videoconference
Members present
- Marcus Bokkerink (Chair)
- Kirstin Baker
- Sarah Cardell (Interim CEO)
- Martin Coleman
- Cynthia Dubin
- Amelia Fletcher
- Michael Grenfell
- Murdoch MacLennan
- David Stewart
- Erik Wilson (COO)
Advisors present
- Stuart Hudson, Senior Director Strategy, Communications and Advocacy
- Chris Prevett, Interim General Counsel
- Lucy Robbins, Senior Director, People, Capability and Culture
- Mike Walker, Chief Economic Adviser
CMA staff present
- Kate Bridge, Director of Executive Office, Security and Performance
- Chief of Staff, Executive Office
- Committee Secretary (minutes)
Teams
The meeting was attended by teams from across the CMA, including the Senior Directors, People, Capability and Culture team, and HR.
Minutes
1 . Introduction
The Chair welcomed the Board members to the meeting, noting that there were no apologies.
2 . Shaping the future CMA
The Board was updated on the work of the teams on the themes arising from the current Shaping the Future CMA project including how to:
- Develop new CMA values to reflect to reflect the culture we want to maintain and develop going forward
- Adapt our businesses model to deploy ourselves more flexibly and dynamically
- Build and reinforce critical capabilities, including strengthening our horizon-scanning and advocacy skills
- Upgrade our employee value proposition to ensure a diverse, inclusive and respectful environment and to provide a flexible working environment that adapts to our staff’s personal goals
- Joining up our priorities and areas of focus to guide our choices and selection of cases.
The Board discussed the current proposals and agreed that teams will return in the new year to update the Board on the development of these themes.
3 . Creating and ensuring a diverse CMA
The Board considered a range of options to improve the CMA’s pay gaps and its diverse representation of staff, particularly at senior levels, noting that these will form the CMA’s new two year action plan which is part of our overarching Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy 2020 to 2024.
The Board agreed that the current pay and ethnicity gaps data is of considerable concern and considered that it is imperative for the CMA to reduce the pay gaps and to improve the diverse representation of staff in a much more radical, quicker way. It approved the proposals also agreeing a number of priorities which will be the focus of immediate action.
4 . AOB
The Chair thanked the Board and the teams for the meeting acknowledging the significant work underlying today’s discussions.