'Cross-government Working Inquiry' Written Evidence

Description

In this written memorandum, we argue that cross-government working (CGW) in the UK is currently limited by the dominance of the Treasury, the siloisation of the Whitehall system, damaging cost-cutting agendas, and chronic short-termism. The weight of these problems creates major barriers to CGW that are only likely to be removed with significant reform of the UK’s machinery of government and wider political system. Given the likelihood of such reforms is currently low, we argue that the only viable way to deliver genuinely effective and lasting CGW is to pursue “multi-level CGW”. Here we focus largely on England, but there are also important lessons here for working with the devolved nations This entails various strategies for drawing subnational institutions into CGW approaches.

Period	12 Dec 2023
Work for	Public Accounts Committee UK Parliament, United Kingdom