really interesting from @so_says_sally (and not just cos she quotes me) .. my experience a decade ago from @DefraGovUK was that it was really hard to get @DHSCgovuk out of its health service silo and interested in wider policy
so its great news they are now interested in air quality (they weren't then); we tried to interest DH as was in fuel poverty (hypothermia kills) - no interest. So I think there is scope for depts realising benefits where there are real synergies
the problems for a line dept come where their cross-cutting priority cuts across a departmental priority and they need to persuade it to go in another direction..
that is where they need oomph from the SoS, central backing and real persistence to make anything happen. Otherwise they are just forced back to the levers they control... But its a v important issue, so lets hope this works..

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the new Levelling Up taskforce under Andy Haldane is interesting for govt structure nerds (and an interesting contrast to govt structures for #netzero) @CommonsBEIS
Haldane is perm sec for 6 months (levelling up will take longer than that .. but first focus will be on working out what this means...) reporting jointly to Michael Gove and the PM.
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.@britishchambers had an impartial stance in the referendum - but that was broken when its Director-General came out for Leave - and catapulted Adam into the leadership Image
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so its back to Scotland this week in @UKandEU #Brexitwitnessarchive with an interview with former SNP Europe spokesperson @StephenGethins. Lets pick out some highlights...
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.@instituteforgov has published a paper by Lee Cain on reforming the govt communications service...it offers a fascinating insight into the Cummings/Cain approach to govt ..he makes the case for the plans they had for massive centralisation of govt comms
paper here...instituteforgovernment.org.uk/sites/default/…

I wrote a blog criticising those plans last year...instituteforgovernment.org.uk/blog/no10-cont…
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