Agenda

Meeting

Pension Board

To:

David Portlock (Independent Chair – non-voting)

Scheme Member Representatives – Eddie Brass, David Houlgate, Simon Purcell and Sam Thompson

Employer Representatives – Emma Barbery, Councillor Martin Rowley BEM (CoYC), Andrew Robinson and Councillor Steve Watson (NYC).

Date:

Thursday, 15 January 2026

Time:

10.00 am

Venue:

Brierley Room - County Hall, Northallerton.

 

Business

 

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1.  

Welcome by the Chair

 

 

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2.  

Apologies for absence

 

 

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3.  

Declarations of interest

 

 

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4.  

Exclusion of the public

 

 

Members are recommended to consider excluding the public from the meeting during consideration of each of the items of business listed in column 1 of the following table on the grounds that they each involve the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in the paragraph(s) specified in column 2 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972 as amended by the Local Government (Access to information)(Variation) Order 2006.

 

 

Item number on the agenda

 

Paragraph Number

5b

3

 

 

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5a

Minutes of the Pension Board meeting held on 23 October 2025

 

(Pages 5 - 12)

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5b

Confidential minutes of the Pension Board meeting held on 23 October 2025

 

(Pages 13 - 16)

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5c

Progress on issues raised by the Board

 

(Pages 17 - 18)

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6.  

Public questions and statements

 

 

Members of the public may ask questions or make statements at this meeting if they have given notice and supplied the text to the contact details below by midday on Monday, 12 January 2026, three working days before the day of the meeting. Each speaker should limit themselves to 3 minutes on any item. Members of the public who have given notice will be invited to speak.

·            at this point in the meeting if their questions/statements relate to matters which are not otherwise on the Agenda (subject to an overall time limit of 30 minutes);

·            when the relevant Agenda item is being considered if they wish to speak on a matter which is on the Agenda for this meeting.

If you are exercising your right to speak at this meeting, but do not wish to be recorded, please inform the Chair who will instruct anyone who may be taking a recording to cease while you speak.

 

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7.  

Draft Minutes of the Pension Fund Committee meeting held on 21 November 2025

 

(Pages 19 - 26)

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<AI10>

8.  

Review of the Terms of Reference

 

(Pages 27 - 36)

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<AI11>

9.  

Administration Report

 

(Pages 37 - 104)

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10.  

Pension Fund Risk Register

 

(Pages 105 - 122)

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11.  

Internal Audit - Progress Report 2025/26

 

(Pages 123 - 128)

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12.  

Internal Audit - Risk Management Audit Report

 

(Pages 129 - 134)

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13.  

Budget, Cashflow and Annual Report

 

(Pages 135 - 142)

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14.  

Training

 

(Pages 143 - 144)

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15.  

Work programme

 

(Pages 145 - 148)

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16.  

Any other items

 

 

Any other items which the Chair agrees should be considered as a matter of urgency because of special circumstances.

 

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17.  

Date of next meeting

 

 

Thursday, 2 April 2026 at 10:00am.

 

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Members of the public are entitled to attend this meeting as observers for all those items taken in open session. You may be interested in subscribing to updates about this or any other North Yorkshire Council committee.

 

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Anyone wishing to record is asked to contact the Democratic Services Officer (details below) prior to the start of the meeting.

 

Contact Details

 

For enquiries relating to this agenda and meeting please contact:
David Smith, Senior Democratic Services Officer

E-mail: David.Smith1@northyorks.gov.uk

E-mail: democraticservices.central@northyorks.gov.uk

Tel: 01756 706235

Website: www.northyorks.gov.uk

 

 

Barry Khan

Assistant Chief Executive

Legal and Democratic Services

County Hall

Northallerton

 

Wednesday, 7 January 2026

 

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