Board Committees

Nomination Committee

The Nomination Committee, on behalf of the Board, within its Terms of Reference, is responsible for the process of the nomination, selection, training and evaluation of directors and of executive succession planning.

Nomination committee terms of reference

Remuneration Committee

The Remuneration Committee, on behalf of the Board, within its Terms of Reference, is responsible for the development of the Company’s policy on executive remuneration and for determining the remuneration packages of individual directors.

Remuneration committee terms of reference

Audit Committee

The Audit Committee, on behalf of the Board, within its Terms of Reference, if responsible for the review of the effectiveness of the Company’s financial reporting and internal control principles and for maintaining an appropriate relationship with the Company’s auditors.

Audit committee terms of reference

	Nomination Committee	Remuneration Committee	Audit Committee
Gerry Brown	Chair
Jeremy Curnock Cook
Sir Thomas Harris		Chair
Anthony Weir			Chair

Attendance at Meetings held in 2009

The attendance of individual directors at scheduled meetings of the Board and at meetings of the Audit, Nomination and Remuneration Committees during the year is set out in the table below.

Director	Board		Audit Committee		Nomination Committee		Remuneration Committee
Gerry Brown	8	8	-	-	1	1	5	5
Jeremy Curnock Cook	8	8	2	2	1	1	5	5
Sir Thomas Harris	8	8	2	2	1	1	5	5
Tony Weir	8	7	2	2	1	0	5	4
Anne Fairey	8	7	-	-	-	-	-	-
Crispin Simon	8	8	-	-	-	-	-	-
Ian Ardill	8	8	-	-	-	-	-	-
Peter Stratford	8	7	-	-	-	-	-	-
John Sylvester	8	8	-	-	-	-	-	-

Figures in bold indicate the number of meetings held in the period in which the individual was a Board or Committee member. Figures not in bold show the number of meetings actually attended by each director.