Recommendation 9

We requested further details on how these arrangements operate in practice, including how departments consider the system-wide impacts of decisions. Officials described areas of joint work, including forecasting, modelling of demand for appeals and discussions on pressures affecting accommodation and local authority services.14 We also asked how trade-offs will be managed and activity coordinated across the system. The Home Office said the new asylum board will “discuss and resolve trade-offs between conflicting objectives and priorities in different parts of the system based on likely impact on outcomes”, with escalation to ministers or Cabinet committees if these cannot be resolved.15 Learning lessons