Robert Peston

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The Rest Is Money · 308. The 4 challenges (and the biggest opportunity) facing the new PM · 26 Aug 2026 podcast

And but then to get to the fundamentals of this matched

one of the uh recommendations that you and the other permanent secretaries and and and and and authors of the report said was we have departments that are in silos matched

Um that may have s suited a country in a pre digital world, but are now totally inappropriate. matched

And there's got to be um you know, uh these walls, particularly when it comes to sharing of data. matched

um have to come down. matched

Do you get the sense that, you know, your successor, current incumbent of Cabinet Secretary, Antonio Romero, uh and and and Andy Burnham understand that this has got to be a priority, that there has to be, you know, is somebody, you know, m my uh mum died a few months ago. matched

And actually one of the things that uh matched

was uh positive actually was now when you register a death, they will send the information that, you know, your nearest and dearest has you know, loved one has has died to all the relevant departments and you only have to you only have to register it once, which is that is a positive that is su that shows you one of the advantages of some kind of data sharing. matched

But we it's it's a rare example. matched

There's very little of that matched

Very little of that that actually happened. matched

That actually happens at the moment. matched

former Permanent Secretary only last night who said matched

Th the biggest block on getting this cross-departmental cooperation is still the Treasury. matched

Because the Treasury, you know, just prefers a system where they know who they're dealing with and there isn't the these sort of slightly blurred lines in terms of who does what and costs. matched

D is that your sense? matched

No. matched

That the Treasury is still a road block? matched

and and you think they get the idea th th th th the notion that if we don't share data across departments, we're in real time. matched

And what would you say to you know, Andy Burnham and any two other ministers who 'cause are to put it I suppose um matched

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