Recommendation 7

The Cabinet Office relies on information departments provide on their readiness to identify the highest risk elements of the programme, although it continues to use specialist support from the Infrastructure and Projects Authority to review projects and also uses commercial and digital experts to assess departments’ readiness.11 The Cabinet Office told us that it has taken the approach of a “culture of openness and information- sharing” in managing coordination, which contrasts with the Department for Exiting the EU’s culture of secrecy and restriction of information. As an example, the Cabinet Office said that it was sharing with departments both milestone information about their own projects, and operational readiness across the country.12