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We asked the Department whether there were mechanisms to share best practice on themes that are common across other parts of the UK. It explained that fairly regular conversations take place with counterparts in the devolved administrations, but there is no set forum. The Department accepted that it should consider trying to set up such a forum, since there are clearly interesting developments emerging in other parts of the UK that it should consider when formulating policy for England.45 43 C&AG’s Report, para 3.18 44 Qq 63–64 45 Qq 50–51 16