Recommendation 1

On the basis of a report by the Comptroller and Auditor General, we took evidence from Sir Alex Chisholm, Permanent Secretary at the Cabinet Office, and from Cat Little, Second Permanent Secretary at HM Treasury, about cross-government working.1 We also took evidence from four practitioners to understand more about the key challenges and opportunities they have experienced from cross-government working. They were: Catherine Hutchinson, Head of the Evaluation Task Force; Will Garton, Director General for Levelling Up, Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC); Chris Thompson, Director for Net Zero Strategy, Department for Energy, Security and Net Zero; and, Nathan Moores, Director for Shared Services at the Cabinet Office.