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<p>The UK Government and the devolved administrations jointly agreed improved ways
of working in January 2022. The new intergovernmental system ensures that ministers
and officials are working together, across all areas, maintaining open channels of
communication, discussing best practice and sharing learning from across the governments.
Tackling our challenges is a shared endeavour and already this year there have been
over 60 ministerial meetings between the Government and DAs on a wide range of issues</p><p>This
collaboration has been vital in ensuring UK-wide join up, from tackling cost of living
pressures to delivering the Homes for Ukraine which has helped over 117,000 people.</p><p>As
set out in the Levelling Up White Paper, the UK Government is determined to do more
to enable the sharing of evidence between the government and devolved administrations.
The Concordat on Statistics provides a framework for statistical co-operation between
the government and devolved administrations, and the UK Statistics Authority continues
to lead on a suite of work to improve the UK-wide coherency of evidence in public
policy-making.</p><p> </p>
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