Thread by @jillongovt

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

https://twitter.com/so_says_sally/status/1443877474123894824

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..