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HORIZON WORKING GROUP
8 JUNE 1999
Agenda
1. Introduction by Ian McCartney
2. Proposed terms of reference; views of
a. Ian McCartney
b. POCL
c. NFSP
d. CWU
e, CMA
f, Summary of agreement reached; lan McCarntey
3. Presentation by Stuart Sweetman POCL
4. Future work programme and schedule of meetings
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HORIZ: EETING 8 JUNE
Chairman : Ian McCartney MP
Stuart Sweetman, Managing Director, POCL
Dave Miller, POCL
Derek Hodgson, General Secretary CWU
John Baldwin, CWU
Terry Deegan, General Secretary CMA
Tony Harris, CMA
Colin Baker, General Secretary, NFSP
John Peberdy, NFSP
Frank Doran MP, PPS to Ian McCartney
David Sibbick, Director - Posts, DTI
Isabel Anderson, DTI
Geoff Moore, Assistant Private Secretary to Ian McCartney
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PROPOSED TERMS OF REFERENCE
In relation to carrying forward the work on the POCL/ICL Horizon project:
* to oversee the negotiations between POCL and ICL which will develop the letter of agreement
signed between the parties on 24 May into a Codified Agreement governing the contractual
relationship under which the project will be taken forward, together with the consequential
arrangements between POCL and the Benefits Agency; and to facilitate solutions to any
problems which may arise;
© to oversee, to contribute actively to, and to facilitate solutions where problems arise, the
completion of the development phases of the Horizon project, and in particular the smooth and
timely roll-out of the system to all offices within the post office network, and the subsequent
satisfactory migration of benefit payments from the present paper-based methods to more
modern, ACT-based, methods of payment also accessible through post offices; and
¢ to contribute through ideas, contacts and other practical measures, to maximising the
commercial potential of the Horizon infrastructure and the future viability of the post office
network as a whole.
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