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Yes. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to the Cabinet Member decision. My name is Kevin Deanus. I'm the Cabinet Member for Fire, Rescue and Resilience. I don't think we have anybody watching online. I'm surprised there isn't a queue waiting to hear this decision. So, I'll have to go through the agenda just so we cover it correctly. It would be only me to declare an interest and I don't have one. I don't think there's any procedural matters we have to be concerned about today. We have no members' questions and no public questions. So, swiftly on to why we are here, which is the Surrey Fine Rescue Statement of Assurance. Okay, a bit of feedback. At least it made the meeting sound more interesting. So, this is a requirement in the Fine Rescue National Framework for England 2018 that Fine Rescue Authorities publish an annual statement of assurance. So, this is a legal requirement that we have to do. Probably one of the less controversial decisions we ever have to make. I'm delighted that Sally Wilson, Assistant Chief Fire Officer, is here today. Obviously, the papers have been submitted or circulated previously. It's fair to say, because I know the procedure, I don't have any questions because I understand why we do it and why the requirement is there. If you want to literally just give a 30-second, but please don't read the whole report out. Thank you, Sally. Thank you. Thank you. So, yes, we're here today, a financial strategy, and provides financial governance and transparency. In terms of governance assurance, it gives details of the governance framework and the legal compliance, and it includes the role of the Cabinet member for Fire and Rescue as well. Operational assurance, it describes our operational performance and our risk management, and it references the Community Risk Management Plan for 2020 to 2024. It's always a backward-looking document, is the statement of assurance. Obviously, it's been shared very much. It's there to emphasize the importance of transparency and accountability, and accessibility of information within Fire and Rescue. And we are in the service. Thank you. Thank you, Sally. And, of course, this afternoon, we have Cabinet, which is looking at the Community Risk Management Plan, and we have a recommendation for that to be supported by the Cabinet. I don't have any questions, and actually, thank you for that very good summary. Now, I'm assuming there is a recommendation. I haven't got it in front of me. But the Cabinet member approves it, and the Office of Fire and Rescue Service statement of assurance for publication, which I do, so we can have that as the decision has been agreed. And unless anybody's got any questions, thank you for the team who have prepared that document. It's very easy. It's a very quick meeting to approve it, but it doesn't sort of reflect the hard work that goes into writing it. So please, for yourself and others, my gratitude for that document. You can always tell if it's a good document because I don't find any questions to ask. As you know, I do try and find something just to prove that I've read it, and I haven't found it on this occasion. So can you express my gratitude to everybody and also to Democratic Services for getting me through a meeting without making any mistakes and getting everything done on time. So thank you for that. So unless there's anything from anybody, we'll conclude the meeting. Thank you.